Sweet Coneflower

Rudbeckia subtomentosa

This beautiful rudbeckia has large flowers (2 inches or more across) with many yellow petals surrounding a neat, domed, chocolate-colored center. The immature flowers appear as brown buttons. Flowers grow on single, hairy or woolly stems. Upper leaves are single and lanceolate, lower leaves are broader and divide into three lobes.


1-4 feet, sun.


Late Summer (August-September).

Woolly stem and three-lobed, slightly toothed lower leaves.  

22 July 2020.

Sweet Coneflower, 22 July 2020.