Looking for a fiery garden spark? Meet the Prairie Glow Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba ‘Prairie Glow’), a dazzling herbaceous perennial with unique, bi-colored flowers that radiate warmth. This tall-growing, long-blooming beauty flaunts burnt-orange petals tipped in golden yellow with a chocolate-brown center cone.

Unlike your typical Black-Eyed Susan, Prairie Glow is a showy hybrid form of Rudbeckia triloba that sports airy, branching stems and masses of smaller daisy-like flowers. The foliage is deep green and slightly rough in texture, providing a lush backdrop to the blazing flowers.

Growing 2-4 feet tall but only 1-2 feet wide, its upright form makes it ideal for tucking into narrow spaces where you want vertical color. As blooms fade, decorative seed heads remain, offering food for songbirds and winter interest.

Native to the prairies and woodlands of North America, this plant embodies the spirit of the American wildflower garden. Part of the Aster family, its relatives include Echinacea, Sunflowers, and Asters. Long celebrated for symbolizing encouragement and motivation, Black-Eyed Susans also hold medicinal folklore history as a healing plant for Native tribes.

Key Features

• Long-blooming perennial with fiery orange-gold flowers
• Reblooming from mid-summer through frost
• Compact 1-2 foot spread, tall airy form
• Excellent pollinator magnet – bees, butterflies, and songbirds
• Provides ornamental seed heads for fall and winter interest

Landscaping Uses

This fiery perennial shines in naturalized gardens and cottage-style landscapes. Growing 2-4 feet tall, it adds vertical sparks of color in narrow beds or prairie plantings. Blooming from mid-summer into fall, this reblooming powerhouse is a pollinator favorite that brings continuous waves of color to borders, prairies, and wildflower gardens.

• Wildflower meadows and prairie plantings
• Cottage gardens for continuous summer-to-fall bloom
• Pollinator gardens and butterfly borders
• Cut flower arrangements
• Narrow spaces or mixed perennial beds

Care & Maintenance

The Prairie Glow Black-Eyed Susan thrives in USDA zones 4-10. This is an herbaceous perennial that is both tough and dependable. Heat and drought-tolerant once established, it’s a low-maintenance garden star that thrives under Ma Nature’s toughest moods.

• Planting Time: Best planted in spring or fall
• Sun Requirements: Full sun for best bloom production
• Soil Requirements: Well-drained average soil, tolerant of clay soil or rocky soils
• Moisture Needs: Moderate – use the Finger Test; provide consistent water the first year
• Arborist Mulch: Apply a 3-4 inch deep layer of organic mulch – learn why here
• Fertilization Needs: Benefits from compost in spring, or a balanced perennial fertilizer
• Pruning Info: Deadhead spent blooms to extend the season of color
• Division Info: Can be divided every 2-3 years in spring or fall to maintain vigor
• Special Perks: Deer-resistant, drought-tolerant, easy-care

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Glowing With Garden Charm

If you crave a plant that brings sunset shades and constant cheer, the Prairie Glow Black-Eyed Susan delivers. With its long bloom time, pollinator power, and glowing colors, this perennial deserves a place in every garden. Order your Prairie Glow Black-Eyed Susan today from and enjoy fiery blooms straight through the season!

36-48″ tall x 12-24″ wide. Rudbeckia Prairie Glow(also known as Brown Eyed Susan) produces masses of blooms from late summer to fall on sturdy, heavily-branched stems that tower at the back of perennial beds and butterfly gardens. Stunning when planted in mass. Plants are bushy but upright, with bright green foliage that provides season-long color. Plants are considered short-lived perennials and are often treated as a self-seeding annual. Naturalize in meadows or borders by leaving seed heads intact, or deadhead to prevent self-sowing. Removing the first flush of blooms will increase flower production over the fall season. Plants are fast growing and require little care. Plant in any well-drained soil in full sun or partial shade. Plants are drought tolerant once established. Deer tend to leave rudbeckia alone in favor of tastier foods.