Help Identifying My Flowers?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

This summer I've been making a beginner's effort at growing wildflowers from seed in my tiny front yard. We used to have the ugliest yard on the street, but the rugged little wildflowers are improving it. I put down a Northeastern seed mixture that I bought online of about 30 different wildflower species, and so far 6 varieties have bloomed. I've been able to identify all of them except this one:



Does anyone know what it is? This individual one is silver dollar sized, but there are others of it's kind that are smaller, or less ornate with the red. They're on fuzzy, sturdy stalks, and grow low to the ground. It's lovely, but I've found nothing online to match it up to.

Thanks for any help!

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[ah42.livejournal.com]

I'm having trouble locating an image that matches that... between the red colouring (seems to mostly match some Rudbeckia hirta varieties) and the number and shapes of petals (seems only Rudbecia triloba has fewer than 10 petals) so I'm thinking it's a hybrid, and not a natural variety... wildflower, huh?

Also, many wildflowers won't bloom their first year when grown from seed. (echinacea, for example won't flower from seed unless it's started *really* early. I started some this year, and just now they've only started getting full-sized leaves. They'll start dying back for the winter soon enough.)

As far as maintaining the wildflowers, when everything dries up, make sure to rescatter the seeds! I made the mistake once of cutting a wildflower garden down, and then raking it all up, instead of just leaving the cuttings on the ground. We had to reseed it the next year :/