{"product_id":"rudbeckia-fulgida-var-fulgida","title":"Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida","description":"\u003cp\u003eRudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida is the true orange coneflower, the wild species that stands behind the famous 'Goldsturm', quieter, finer, and later to bloom than that celebrated garden child. From a low clump of dark, roughly hairy leaves rise branching stems two to three feet tall, each ending in a small golden daisy about two inches across, the deep yellow rays set around a low dome of brown-black. Where many of the black-eyed Susans have blazed and faded by August, the orange coneflower is only getting started, carrying many small flowers from late summer well into October.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA native of open woods, meadows, and moist savannas east of the Mississippi, from the Florida panhandle north to New York and west into Illinois, the orange coneflower ranks among the latest of the clan to flower. The genus honors Olof Rudbeck, the Swedish botanist and teacher of Linnaeus, while fulgida, shining or glittering, catches the way the ranked daisies seem to throw the light back at the eye. Unlike the running var. sullivantii, the true species keeps to a well-mannered clump and does not colonize by aggressive underground runners, staying more or less where the gardener sets the clump.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida earns a place at the front or middle of a sunny border, in a meadow, or through a pollinator planting, where the late bloom fills the tired gap at summer's close. The small daisies feed bees and butterflies well into fall, and the seed heads bring goldfinches down through the cooler weeks. Pair the orange coneflower with asters, little bluestem, goldenrod, and Joe-Pye weed for a loose, native, long-season picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the plant full sun to part shade and an average to moist, well-drained soil, and the orange coneflower asks for little more, taking clay in stride and shrugging off dry spells once the roots run deep. Leave the seed heads standing for the birds and the winter silhouette, then cut the old stems to the ground in late winter as the fresh rosette returns. A tough, honest, late-blooming native coneflower, the true species rather than the cultivar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45232251502707,"sku":"RUDB-FULG-FULG-01Q","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Rudbeckia_fulgida_var._fulgida.png?v=1773264837","url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/products\/rudbeckia-fulgida-var-fulgida","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}