Yellow Coneflower

Echinacea paradoxa, yellow coneflower, reaches 2½ to 3 feet tall. The name paradoxa comes from the fact that this purple coneflower species has yellow flowers.

Echinacea paradoxa (Yellow Coneflower) The difficult-to-find yellow coneflower is indeed a paradox as all other coneflowers are either purple or white.

80 (120)cm, Pinnate Prairie Coneflower or Yellow Coneflower makes bright yellow, recurving petals surrounding a dark to pale brown center.

Echinacea paradoxa : Yellow Coneflower - Whole Plant
Echinacea purpurea : Purple Coneflower - Flowers
Echinacea purpurea 'Bravado' : Bravado Purple Coneflower - Flowers ...

The black-eyed Susan and the other rudbeckias are also called yellow coneflowers. The most widely cultivated is the golden glow (R. laciniata hortensia), a tall double-blossomed perennial.

Yellow Fieldcress - Rorippa sylvestris
Yellowwood - Cladrastis lutea, Maclura pomifera
Yellow Coneflower - Echinacea paradoxa
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Deep, orange red petals, tipped with yellow make a nice contrast to the dark center of the flower. All sneezeweeds have three lobed petals which distiguish them from Rudbeckia and other yellow coneflowers. Brown, rust colored fruit appear in fa...

sneezeweed from other species of sneezeweed, which have yellow-green disks. (See the sneezeweed page.) On all sneezeweeds, the yellow ray petals have three lobes -- these distinguish sneezeweeds from black-eyed susan and other yellow coneflowers.

See also: Coneflower, Rudbeckia, Green, Pink, Echinacea