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Sunfacing Coneflower; Pineywoods Coneflower; Sunfacing Cone Flower; Pineywoods Cone Flower; Sun Facing Coneflower; Piney Woods Coneflower; Sun Facing Cone Flower; Piney Woods Cone Flower

Rudbeckia grandiflora

77
Strong

Native to Louisiana. How scores work Is it native here?

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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

Hidden from default planting suggestions. Wildlife value and native status remain unchanged.

At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 15 Louisiana parishes.

Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food. 67 animals.

All wildlife of Louisiana

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

15CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including LA

Genus host records with ranges including LA · Rudbeckia

  • Chlosyne nycteisSilvery Checkerspot
  • Acharia stimuleaSaddleback Caterpillar Moth
  • Adaina ambrosiaeAmbrosia Plume Moth, Ragweed Plume Moth
  • Archips griseaGray Archips
  • Chlorochlamys chloroleucariaBlackberry Looper Moth
  • Epiblema tripartitanaThree-Parted Epiblema
  • Eupithecia miserulataCommon Eupithacia, Common Pug
  • Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
  • Papaipema cataphractaBurdock Border, Potato-Stalk Borer
  • Papaipema nebrisStalk Borer
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  • Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
  • Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
  • Dichomeris costarufoella
  • Isophrictis rudbeckiella
  • Paralobesia rhoifructana
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
56BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Rudbeckia

Individual names are not available yet.

Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
25Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Rudbeckia

  • Andrena aliciae
  • Andrena asteris
  • Andrena rudbeckiae
  • Diadasia enavata
  • Dieunomia bolliana
  • Dieunomia heteropoda
  • Megachile inimica
  • Megachile parallela
  • Megachile pugnata
  • Megachile xylocopoides
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  • Melissodes bidentis
  • Melissodes boltoniae
  • Melissodes coreopsis
  • Melissodes denticulatus
  • Melissodes dentiventris
  • Melissodes desponsus
  • Melissodes druriellus
  • Melissodes illatus
  • Melissodes subillatus
  • Melissodes trinodis
  • Melissodes wheeleri
  • Paranthidium jugatorium
  • Perdita octomaculata
  • Protandrena albitarsis
  • Protandrena andrenoides
Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
ASTERACEAE

What its natural habitat tells you

Conservation status

Louisiana rankS1
Global rankNot available
LA statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

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