200 Mexican Hat Flower Seeds

• You will get 200 Seeds of Mexican Hat Flower Seeds.
• Sunlight: Full Sun, Medium Sun.
• Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Peat, Sand, Silt.
• Life Cycle: Perennial.
• Watering: Medium.
• Cultivating Difficulty: Easy.
• Mexican Hat is a popular native wildflower that thrives in inhospitable conditions!
• They can withstand very dry soil and are considered to be drought tolerant.
• Mexican hat is reported, by some, to be a highly effective deer repellent!
• They're also a great attractant to pollinators like butterflies and bees.
• It has many names like upright prairie coneflower, Red-Spike Mexican hat, Prairie Coneflower, Thimble flower and Long-headed coneflower.
• The colorful and uniquely shaped flower heads of Ratibida get their name from Mexican men who participate in Fiestas, and use high-centered and broad brimmed sombreros.
• Their native habitat is prairies, meadows, savannahs, pastures and roadsides.
• They'll thrive in both dry and moist soils.
• Mexican Hat has a very high drought tolerance and is the primary reason for its great success as a wildflower.
• Tea made from their leaves and stalks is said to be effective in treating stomach pains.
• The boiled leaves and stems are supposedly effective in treatment of poison ivy.
• Ratibida will also appeal to beneficial predatory insects and keep your landscape eco-balanced.