Location: Traditional Design and Cottage Garden Design

 Names:

• Common Name: Purple Coneflower
• Botanical Name: Echinacea spp.
• AKA: Eastern Purple Coneflower

Description: A popular perennial with smooth, 2-5 ft. stems and long-lasting, lavender flowers. Rough, scattered leaves that become small toward the top of the stem. Flowers occur singly atop the stems and have domed, purplish-brown, spiny centers and drooping, lavender rays. An attractive perennial with purple (rarely white), drooping rays surrounding a spiny, brownish central disk.

Best Growing Conditions: Full Sun, Partial Shade; Low to Medium Water Demand; Dry Soil; Well-drained, sandy, or richer soils

Landscape Use: Focal Point, Container

 Wildlife Value: Bees, Birds, Butterflies (nectar source)