Purple Coneflower

Purple Coneflower

Perennial


  • American Beauties Native Plants®
  • Attracts Butterflies
  • Attracts Songbirds
  • Average Water
  • Border or Bed
  • Cut Flower/Foliage
  • Deer Resistant
  • Drought Tolerant
  • Full Sun
  • Green
  • Heat Tolerant
  • Late Summer
  • Long Blooming
  • Low Maintenance
  • Mass Planting
  • Moist
  • Native
  • Partial Sun
  • Purple
  • Summer Bloomer
  • Supports Bees
  • Upright
  • Well-Drained

Echinacea purpurea is one of the great butterfly magnets of the native perennial garden. Coneflowers are easy to grow in average to dry, well-drained soils. Flowers with large orange-gold spiky centers and strong reflexed rose-pink petals appear in July and August. Very drought tolerant.

  • Category: Perennial
  • Breeder: American Beauties Native Plants
  • Hardiness Zone: 4-9
  • Height: 2-3 Feet
  • Spread: 18-24 Inches
  • Bloom Color: Purple Shades