Yellow Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)

Yellow coneflowers are one of the many flowers that can be found at the Grey Cloud Dunes Scientific and Natural Area. NPS/Gordon Dietzman Prairie Home Introduction This showy plant grows well in dry, mesic, or wet conditions. It is a very attractive plant that blooms for a good part of the summer. It grows to be 3 to 5 feet and has a yellow flower with a dark gray center. Yellow coneflowers are common in prairies, but are early successional plants, which means they often do well in disturbances, such as the trampling hooves of bison, but are slowly out-competed by grasses and may slowly disappear from plantings. Blooms: June through August Find It Look for this plant around edges and in recently restored prairies and savannas. Coldwater Spring Cenaiko Lake (East Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park) Hastings River Flats Park Want to Help Us Better Understand the Park? See our iNaturalist project, "The Life of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area" and contribute to it by downloading the iNaturalist app and uploading your sightings of this species, and others, to the project. You can also upload your sightings from your computer.