- You will get 20 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.