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Ratibida columnifera - MEXICAN HAT
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RAT-COL-X
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Mexican hat or Prairie Coneflower - slender looking, aromatic plant, with deeply cut leaves and typical yellow flowers from July to early October. It can reach to 3' tall x 2' wide (much shorter on infertile and dry soils)
Ratibida columnifera is native through out most of USA, see the USDA distribution map. It is most common on the Great Plains - in dry prairies, along sideroads, railroads and highways.
Full sun or half sun, well drained, poor, sandy, shallow soils, medium moist to dry. It is intolerant to wet and heavy soils and clay! Drought, heat and humidity tolerant plant. Plants can be nibbles by mammals, especially the young shoots.
Native Americans used it's healing properties : an infusion is used to relieve the pain of headaches and to treat stomach aches and fevers. A decoction is used as a wash to relieve pain and to treat poison ivy rash and the poison out of a rattlesnake's bite.
Good plant for drier sunny borders, native plant areas, dry meadows, prairies or bigger rock gardens. It looks best in groups or masses, it is not long-lived, (especially on more fertile and more wet soil), but it will self seed.
Good perennial companions are Asclepias tuberosa, Asclepias verticillata, Aster (oblongifolius, laevis, ptarmicoides), Dalea, Echinacea (angustifolia, pallida, tennesseensis, paradoca or others), Eryngium, Gaillardia, Gaura, Liatris, Monarda fistulosa, Oenothera, Penstemon, Salvia azurea or Yucca or grasses like Boutelloua, Muhlenbergia, sporobolus, Stipa.
This native perennial offers pollen and nectar to short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, beetles, other occasional visitors are butterflies or skippers. Host plant for caterpillars of several moths.
Picture copyright : USFWS Endangered Species, Commons Wikipedia
Pot Size : square 3.5" x 5" deep pot
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Ratibida columnifera - MEXICAN HAT
$7.99
Mexican hat or Prairie Coneflower - slender looking, aromatic plant, with deeply cut leaves and typical yellow flowers from July to early October. It can reach to 3' tall x 2' wide (much shorter on infertile and dry soils)
Ratibida columnifera is native through out most of USA, see the USDA distribution map. It is most common on the Great Plains - in dry prairies, along sideroads, railroads and highways.
Full sun or half sun, well drained, poor, sandy, shallow soils, medium moist to dry. It is intolerant to wet and heavy soils and clay! Drought, heat and humidity tolerant plant. Plants can be nibbles by mammals, especially the young shoots.
Native Americans used it's healing properties : an infusion is used to relieve the pain of headaches and to treat stomach aches and fevers. A decoction is used as a wash to relieve pain and to treat poison ivy rash and the poison out of a rattlesnake's bite.
Good plant for drier sunny borders, native plant areas, dry meadows, prairies or bigger rock gardens. It looks best in groups or masses, it is not long-lived, (especially on more fertile and more wet soil), but it will self seed.
Good perennial companions are Asclepias tuberosa, Asclepias verticillata, Aster (oblongifolius, laevis, ptarmicoides), Dalea, Echinacea (angustifolia, pallida, tennesseensis, paradoca or others), Eryngium, Gaillardia, Gaura, Liatris, Monarda fistulosa, Oenothera, Penstemon, Salvia azurea or Yucca or grasses like Boutelloua, Muhlenbergia, sporobolus, Stipa.
This native perennial offers pollen and nectar to short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, beetles, other occasional visitors are butterflies or skippers. Host plant for caterpillars of several moths.
Picture copyright : USFWS Endangered Species, Commons Wikipedia
Pot Size : square 3.5" x 5" deep pot
