Mexican Hat Wildflower Garden Plug 6 Pack (Ratibida columnifera)
Mexican Hat Wildflower Garden Plug 6 Pack-
Ratibida columnifera
Understandably, the Mexican Hat bloom gets the common name from it’s resemblance to Sombreros. This native prairie coneflower or thimble flower in the Aster family was used medicinally by Native Americans to treat a variety of ailments, and usually tops out at 1-1.5 feet tall. It is quick to colonize, and produces burgundy and yellow blooms for an extended period in the summer months. A beneficial larval host and pollen/nectar/food source for all types of insects including native bees, butterflies, and moths- this wildflower has a home in prairieland restoration, backyards, and also around the mailbox. Being a native flower of the more xeric Midwestern plains, this easy to grow perennial is a preferred selection of us here at Nativ Nurseries, and has been naturalized throughout the U.S. and large parts of Canada and Mexico.
Zones 4-8
pH range 5.2-8
Customer Reviews
I ordered several different Native plant plugs. All came in healthy minus 1. One Lance-leaf coreopsis had broke off in shipment and never recovered. The rest of the plugs are flourishing in my native plant garden. The Mexican hat all are doing great and I hope to see more growth out of them next year with better root establishment.
The Mexican hat six pack I received in January 2024 arrived healthy though with minor frost damage. I potted them up immediately upon receipt and five of the six have thrived in the basement with grow lights, ready now for planting. The shipment I received a little over a week ago arrived, for lack of a better descriptor, mangled. I quickly potted them up in potting soil and I'm waiting on the results (the roots appeared healthy despite the plants themselves not so much). Unfortunately, I had a 6-pack of Mexican hats that looked similar on arrival last Spring and none of them survived (I accepted that as bad luck on my part). My little bluestem 6-pack from 10 days ago is healthy, as are the coreopsis, and my cardinal flowers have done well from shipments in 2023 and this year. The beautyberry bushes from years past (all 4) have grown well, also. I like the quality of your plants overall and the rootball size is great compared to some other on-line companies' shipments I have received. I guess I’m just not lucky with the Ratibida.
Mexican hat wildflower plugs were delivered in 3 days as has everything from nativ nurseries and like everything else they arrived in great shape and were planted promptly.