Yellow Coneflower (Ratibida pinata)

Give your landscape some summer color with Yellow Coneflower, an annual wildflower that grows only in Michigan.

Perfect for pollinator-friendly landscapes. With its bright yellow flowers and graceful drooping bloom heads, this tough-loving plant will look stunning in any outdoor environment. Yellow Coneflower is beautiful and productive and is perfect for meadows, borders, and natural areas.

Key Features:

Yellow Flowers: Delightful daisy flowers with unusual dropped petals spreading around a large central cone.
Pollinator Magnet: Draws bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects to aid local habitats.
Adaptable & Hardy: Good in sun and well-drained soil, good drought-tolerant plant once established.
Simple to Grow & Maintain: Easy to grow & maintain, suitable for beginners and expert gardeners.
Flowers for a Long Time: Provides weeks of color from midsummer through autumn that make your garden last long.

Benefits of Yellow Coneflower:

Environmentally friendly: Helps with biodiversity by providing pollinators and autumn birdseed.
All Seasons Landscaping: Ideal for prairie gardens, wildflower gardens, and cottage borders.
Simple Charm: Adds volume and dimension with its graceful stems and twirling flowers on the wind.
Eco-Friendly Option: This plant is native to North America and doesn’t need excessive fertilizers or chemicals.
Seasonal Interest: Large summer blooms, autumn and winter flowering seed heads.

Planting & Care Instructions:

Sunlight: Needs a whole day to grow and flower best.
Soil: Adaptable to all types of soils but prefers moist, sandy, or loamy soils.
Watering: Light watering during set-up; drought tolerant when established.
Plant spacing: Space plants 12-18 inches apart to grow and get air circulation.
Pflege: Cut back dead flowers for reblooming or leave heads of seeds for wildlife.

Why Choose the Yellow Coneflower?

Yellow Coneflower is a wonderful marriage of color, low maintenance, and eco-friendly. Its sunny blossoms light up any garden, and it is hardy enough to work in a variety of conditions. You can use it to make a pollinator paradise, a native plant garden, or just some bright color. The Yellow Coneflower is a multipurpose plant that delivers an incredible amount of value.

Your garden will be a paradise of nature with the eternal appeal of the Yellow Coneflower!