Flower / Warm season
Indian Summer Rudbeckia
Pollinator beds, cutting rows, and late-summer color.
Golden daisy-like blooms with dark centers.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 90
- Germination temperature
- 65-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.125 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 24 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 6 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 7 days after last frost
- Transplant
- 7 days after last frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 28 days
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water during establishment; tolerates drier soil later.
- Soil
- Average, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Deadhead for continued bloom or leave seed heads for wildlife.
- cut-flowers
- pollinators
- annual
- containers
Browse context
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Source: Seed Savers seed saving guide