Ratibida columnifera (Nuttall) Wooton & Standley. Common name: Columnar Prairie Coneflower. Phenology: May-Aug (-Oct). Habitat: Prairies, eastwards in dry disturbed areas, established around nurseries or plantings, waste areas near wool-combing mills. Distribution: ON west to AB, south to TX, NM, AZ, and Mexico (CHH, COA, HID, NLE, PUE, SLP, SON, TAM, VER, ZAC); introduced at scattered sites eastward, including e. NC, e. SC, and c. TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997). Populations in the Black belt prairies of MS and AL are plausibly native.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, F, Fl7, FNA21, G, GrPl, Il, K4, Mex, Mi, NcTx, NE, NY, Oh3, Pa, SE1, WH3, WV, Richards (1968); = n/a — RAB, Tat; = Ratibida columnaris (Sims) D.Don — S, Tx; Rudbeckia columnifera Nuttall. Basionym: Rudbeckia columnifera Nutt. 1813
Links to other floras: = Ratibida columnifera - FNA21
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Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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