Echinacea Purpurea 101 – Guide to Eastern Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea is a herbaceous perennial wildflower native to North America. Commonly known as Purple Coneflower, this species typically grows 3′ tall and prefers full sun with well-drained soil. Blooming from summer to fall, this showy flower attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden.
Echinacea purpurea (Coneflower, Eastern Purple Coneflower, Purple …
It may grow 3 to 4 feet tall and produce pinkish-purple flowers that mature in early summer through mid-fall. This plant prefers well-drained, moist loam but is adaptable to various soil types. It is drought tolerant once established and can grow in full sun to partial shade.
Echinacea purpurea - Wikipedia
Echinacea purpurea, the eastern purple coneflower, [4] purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or Echinacea, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. [5]
How to Grow and Care for Purple Coneflower - The Spruce
Jul 19, 2024 · Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) blooms all summer, adding beautiful color to your wildflower garden. Learn how to grow these hardy, drought-tolerant favorites.
Echinacea purpurea (Eastern Purple Coneflower) - Minnesota …
A native of eastern moist to mesic prairie, Eastern Purple Coneflower is the species typically found in the nursery trade and many colored variants are becoming more common.
Echinacea purpurea - Plant Finder - Missouri Botanical Garden
Echinacea purpurea, commonly called purple coneflower, is a coarse, rough-hairy, herbaceous perennial that is native to moist prairies, meadows and open woods of the central to southeastern United States (Ohio to Michigan to Iowa south to Louisiana and …
Ethnobotanic: Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) was and still is a widely used medicinal plant of the Plains Indians. It was used as a painkiller and for a variety of ailments, including toothache, coughs, colds, sore throats, and snake bite (Kindscher 1992).
Echinacea purpurea — eastern purple coneflower - Go Botany
With a primarily Southeastern and Midwestern distribution in the United States, eastern purple coneflower's range does not include New England. It is, however, popular as a native garden plant and medicinal herb, and is likely to escape occasionally from cultivation.
Eastern Purple Coneflower, Purple Coneflower - Echinacea purpurea
Echinacea purpurea is a plant that grows to about 3 feet tall, with single terminal composite blossoms having pinkish-purple rays. Eastern Purple Coneflower is listed as Endangered in Florida, and as Probably Extirpated in Michigan.
Nature's Notebook: Eastern Purple Coneflower - USA-NPN
Eastern purple coneflower is an erect, perennial herb with a showy purple cone-shaped flower. It grows 1 to 5 feet tall. This plant is part of the Aster family so the flowers are compound and have both ray flowers (the purple petals) and many disk flowers clustered to form the brownish center of …