Rudbeckia californica is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known by the common name California coneflower.

[1] It is native to California, where it grows in the Sierra Nevada, the Klamath Mountains, and northern coastal areas.

The yellow ray florets extend outwards and then become reflexed, pointing back along the stem.

The disc florets filling the button-shaped to conical to cylindrical center of the head are greenish yellow.

intermedia, is now generally treated as a species in its own right named Rudbeckia klamathensis, the Klamath coneflower.