Flower Description

Showy Coneflowers have a bright green pointed tip serrate leaf.  They are not as hairy as the Black Eyed Susan and don’t have the cleft leaves of the Thin-leafed coneflower.  These are the Perennial Coneflower, where the R. hirta is an annual or biennial.

These bloom later than the Black Eyed Susan and generally have a larger colony of plants

They have yellow rays and a brown or purple disk.  These more closely resemble the cultivars we are familiar with.  R. fulgida “Goldsturm”  is a common cultivar,