Clasping Coneflower
Dracopis amplexicaulisClasping Coneflower is an annual wildflower native to Central Texas that grows 2–3 ft tall and 2 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and high water, and handles clay soil. Blooms yellow in late summer. Good for bees and butterflies.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Annual wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–7 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- High
- Height
- 2–3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Bloom
- Late Summer · yellow
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on calcareous, clay, loam, moist, sand, well drained
- Wildlife
- Supports bees and butterflies
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.