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Q.Flower types changing

Zone 48150 | Anonymous added on August 5, 2017 | Answered

Three years ago I planted rudbeckia next to echinacea, had lovely yellow and purple flowers. This year both came up as yellow rudbeckia!! How is this possible??

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nikki-phipps
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Answered on August 7, 2017

Most likely the purple variety died off and only the yellow survived and spread, as this plant readily self seeds.

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