| Author | (Nuttall) Wooton & Standley | |
| Distribution | Reported for NC by Cronquist (1980), but he gave no details. Mapped in Mecklenburg and Moore counties by BONAP, and mapped in NC by FNA. A specimen from Jackson County in 1987 was from an NC DOT wildflower plot and is not mapped here. Weakley (2020) also maps it for NC, as "rare" in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain -- perhaps in reference to the BONAP map.
Native to the Midwest prairies and plains, adventive or escaped eastward. | |
| Abundance | Very rare. | |
| Habitat | No NC data. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting May-August. | |
| Identification | It is hard to miss this species, with its broad bright yellow rays (that are strongly swept downward) and dark brown disk that forms a thick column. The leaves are dissected into narrow segments, not that anyone will notice. Cultivars may have dark red patches at the bases of the rays. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | A synonym is R. columnaris.
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| Other Common Name(s) | Long-headed Coneflower, Yellow Prairie Coneflower | |
| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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