Cutleaf Coneflower
Rudbeckia laciniata
Yellow flowers from July into October, worked by ligated furrow bees and pure green sweat bees. Silvery Checkerspot caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 18 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 6.5 ft to 10 ft tall, 2.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, Jul to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners; wants 12 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Silvery Checkerspot
- Caterpillars
- 20 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 56 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Ligated furrow bee (Halictus ligatus), Pure green sweat bee (Augochlora pura), Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens), Mining bee (Andrena rudbeckiae)
Grows well with
Pink Azalea
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Witherod Viburnum
Northern Highbush Blueberry
New England Aster
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Facts from the Quercus record for Rudbeckia laciniata.