High Plains Gardening
The gardening website of the Texas High Plains Region
You can't have just one. As soon as you plant one, you'll have a drift, then a sweep, then a field if you have the space. But I still don't consider the prairie coneflower to be invasive, merely pleasant. Next to the Indian Blanket, the Mexican Hat shouts Southwest prairies. And its a tough hombre. If your stand becomes too dense or too much, just weed some out. They're adaptable to most native soils and will thrive on available or once a month supplementation. Coneflowers bloom yellow, reddish or brown late spring into fall and make an attractive display when mixed.
Coneflower is a beautiful filler for larger spaces, a foreground plant for a native shrub bed, for native, xeric and habitat gardens.
Thin out to allow plants to attain their mature size.