Bring bold color and movement to your garden with Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera), a hardy, drought-tolerant perennial that thrives in sunny meadows, prairies, and wildflower gardens. Also known as Mexican Hat, this unique wildflower features drooping yellow petals surrounding a tall, dark central cone, attracting butterflies, bees, and birds while adding a striking vertical element to your landscape.

This low-maintenance native plant flourishes in full sun, tolerates dry, sandy soils, and provides season-long interest with vibrant summer blooms followed by seed heads that birds love.

Why Grow Prairie Coneflower?

• Pollinator & Bird Friendly: Attracts butterflies, native bees, and songbirds.
• Drought-Tolerant & Low-Maintenance: Thrives in poor soils with minimal watering once established.
• Long-Lasting Blooms: Provides cheerful, colorful flowers from summer through fall.
• Deer & Rabbit Resistant: Naturally unappealing to deer, ensuring lasting beauty.
• Pollinator-Safe: Grown non-GMO and free of harmful neonicotinoids, promoting a healthy ecosystem for pollinators and wildlife.

Available in sets of three, six, or 12 plants to create a vibrant, pollinator-rich landscape.

Planting Tips

1. Location: Prefers full sun in well-drained, sandy soils. Thrives in prairies, meadows, and naturalized areas.
2. Watering: Water regularly during the first growing season to establish roots. Once established, requires little to no supplemental watering.
3. Maintenance: Minimal care required. There's no need to deadhead the flowers, as allowing them to go to seed provides a valuable food source for birds. Leaving the stems standing in the fall offers overwintering sites for beneficial insects. If desired, cut back the stems in late spring after pollinators have emerged. 

For more information on planting, view our How to Plant Your Native Plants guide and other planting tips in the Garden for Wildlife Learning Center. 

Plant Prairie Coneflower and enjoy long-lasting color, low-maintenance beauty, and essential habitat for wildlife!

Shipping Range:

• AZ
• CO
• ID
• MT
• NM
• UT
• WY

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Returns: Due to the nature of our products, we are unable to offer order cancellations, returns or exchanges. In order to guarantee your satisfaction, all plants are covered by our 365-Day Plant Guarantee.

*To ensure your plants arrive healthy, we may delay shipments to certain areas during times of extreme temperatures, natural disasters, or other conditions that will impact the plants during transit

Sizing: At the time of shipment, our plants have a developed root mass and emerging foliage around 4-8” high.

Recommended container sizes (in width) for container planting:

• 12 In
• 18 In
• 24 In
• 36 In
• 48 In