Purple Coneflower coneflower
Echinacea purpurea 'Purple Coneflower'
USDA zones3 to 8
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles dry to moist soil
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Habit
- Erect
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
'Purple Coneflower' coneflower (Echinacea purpurea 'Purple Coneflower') is a perennial for pollinator gardens, cottage gardens, borders, and cut flowers. It is hardy to USDA zone 3, or down to -40°F (-40°C). This plant likes full or part sun and dry to moist soil of most types. Deer tend to pass it by. Butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, and birds visit the blooms. It also tolerates drought and salt.
Pairs well with Butterfly milkweed, Standing Ovation little bluestem, Nodding onion, and Indian Summer rudbeckia.