This elegant echinacea produces large purple flowers with coppery centers; a perfect choice for planting in groups, along border edges, or in containers; great for flower arrangements, attracts pollinators
Ships as a Landscape-Ready Plug 6 Plant Minimum
Common Name: Purple Coneflower
Type: Herbaceous Perennial
Family: Asteraceae
Native Range: Eastern and Central United States
Zone: 3 to 9
Height: 2.00 to 5.00 feet
Spread: 1.00 to 2.00 feet
Bloom Time: June to August
Bloom Description: Purple to pink
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Water: Medium to dry
Maintenance: Low
Suggested Use: Border, Butterfly Garden, Cut Flower Garden, Naturalize
Flower: Showy
Leaf: Deciduous
Other: Attracts Butterflies, Drought Tolerant, Rabbit Resistant Tolerate: Deer, Drought, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil
Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Ornamental Features
Purple Coneflower has masses of beautiful lightly-scented purple daisy flowers with coppery-bronze eyes at the ends of the stems from mid summer to early fall, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its pointy leaves remain green in color throughout the season.
Planting and Growing
Purple Coneflower will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity extending to 3 feet tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!