Ratibida columnifera(Nutt.) Wooton & Standl.

upright prairie coneflower

WFO wfo-0000083837 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ratibida columnifera, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. a Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 204306810
Ratibida columnifera, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. b Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201631945
Ratibida columnifera, photographed by Mark G
fig. c Mark G, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203637922
Ratibida columnifera, photographed by Nathan May
fig. d Nathan May, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204980128
Ratibida columnifera, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. e Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204311873
Ratibida columnifera, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. f Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204301732
Ratibida columnifera, photographed by Nathan May
fig. g Nathan May, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199112647
Ratibida columnifera, photographed by Northcut
fig. h Northcut, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198592359

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Flowering n = 2,805 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 2,805 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 25 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Lepachys columnaris Torr. & A.Gray
  • Lepachys columnaris var. columnaris
  • Lepachys columnaris var. pulcherrima (DC.) Torr. & A.Gray
  • Lepachys columnifera (Nutt.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Lepachys columnifera f. columnifera
  • Lepachys columnifera var. columnifera
  • Obeliscaria columnaris DC.
  • Obeliscaria drummondii (Paxton) Graham
  • Obeliscaria pulcherrima DC.
  • Ratibida columnaris Raf.
  • Ratibida columnaris (Sims) D.Don
  • Ratibida columnaris f. columnaris
  • Ratibida columnaris var. columnaris
  • Ratibida columnaris var. pulcherrima (DC.) D.Don
  • Ratibida columnifera f. columnifera
  • Ratibida columnifera f. pulcherrima (DC.) Fernald
  • Ratibida columnifera subsp. columnifera
  • Ratibida columnifera var. columnifera
  • Ratibida pulcherrima Steud.
  • Rudbeckia columnaris Pursh
  • Rudbeckia columnaris Sims
  • Rudbeckia columnaris var. columnaris
  • Rudbeckia columnaris var. pulcherrima (DC.) Rothr.
  • Rudbeckia columnifera Nutt.

and 1 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.