Echinacea Species, Eastern Coneflower, Eastern Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Large pink purple flower attract butterflies and beneficials. Blooms late spring through fall my zone US 6.
Photo taken July 5th, 2002.
Echinacea purpurea Seed heads. Photo is a bit blurred but you can see the blond seeds attatched to the central cone
Echinacea purpurea Seed
Seeds with a penny for size reference.
Purple Coneflowers in bloom
May 2002. Maybe 2 weeks out from blooming.
Butterfly magnets!
Great plant. I love the looks but can't seem to get it to grow by seed. Butterflies love it. Florida.
great plant, have had these going on 5 years. Beautiful purple flowers all summer long. attacts all butterflies and bees.
LOVE THIS PLANT! Every year it keeps getting better and better. Butterflys love it. So do the bees.
This plant has a hearty stem with tiny hairs over them. The center of the flower is a bright gold to orange spiky texture and the petals are pink/purple. The root of this plant has been used as an herb to increase the functionality of the human immune system
One Month Old Seedlings
Here's the seed head of our Purple Coneflower after a snowstorm in March 2004. I named this pcture "Purple Snow Cones".
Blooms starting to form in the top of each plant.
The petals grow outward from the bloom's edge.
coneflower petals get color after they start to form
100+ weather and it just keeps blooming.
Started from one plant a year ago...
Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower
love em!
Cone flowers with asters in my wildflower garden.
A very strange mutation of purple cone flower. All the flowers on this plant were green.
Purple coneflower up close
Close-up of new foliage emerging. Late Feburary, West KY.
Cone flowers with Queen Anne's lace in my wildflower garden.
Very pleased with these, I planted last year to bloom this year and now established!
Echinacea purpurea, seedlings sprouted in June in Texas, in 95 degree temperatures.
Echinacea sprouts starting out
Tiny tiny seedling with first set or true leaf. Note first leaves are rounded and first true leaf is characteristicly (even small) echinacea. Dark green etc.
One of the first blossoms of the summer
I love the varying colors etc. at coneflowers different stages of bloom. Here a new bloomed popped out with vary pale lavender petals and a very bright green cone. I don't think pic shows green best.
Echinacea purpurea
Echinacea purpurea
Purple Coneflower (echinacea purpurea)
Purple Coneflower (echinacea purpurea)
Echinacea purpurea
An Eastern Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) dried seedhead ...
The small moth is casting a big shadow on the Eastern Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) flower.
Started from seed in February. Transplanted in April. Perennials are such slow growers. (sigh)
08/01/06 This shows that Monarchs, bumblebees, & other pollinators love coneflowers.
08/01/06 Monarch approaching his meal. Since this plant was newly planted, I didn't deadhead so I could encourage seeds for my birds.
Beautiful big blooms. Great as a "Pass along Plant".
Blooming along with the Agapanthus in the Front Garden.
Coneflower and monarch in mpls
Echinacea at night
Growing at a Golf Course in Prescott Valley, Arizona. 5300 ft elevation, July 23rd, Late Summer.
Growing at a Golf Course in Prescott Valley, Arizona. 5300 ft elevation, July 23rd, Late Summer.
Growing at a Golf Course in Prescott Valley, Arizona. 5300 ft elevation, July 23rd, Late Summer.
Purple Coneflower flowering in my friend's garden in july..
Purple Coneflower growing last fall outside the Como Conservatory in St. Paul, MN
Purple Coneflower patch in someone's garden in St. Paul, MN
Seeds of Echinacea pupurea
Blooming June 2008 in full sun in East Texas
Blooming in East Texas in full sun, June 2008
Newly opened Echinacea purpurea blossom. Rays become more intensely pink as they age.
Growing wild in East Tennessee.
Growing wild in East Tennessee.
Roanoke VA
Echinacea purpurea: new growth in spring.
Western McLennan Co., TX, June 2007
Monarch butterfly on cone flower
I love coneflowers in the garden.
Purple coneflower in Manchester New Hampshire
Echinacea purpurea flowers at various stages of development.
One of my favorite flowers
with sharp looking fly
Taken at near sunset, early July, my garden
With Dew
Central florida zone 9b June 2008
Farmer Johns Greenhouse, Farmington Hills, MI
Farmer Johns Greenhouse, Farmington Hills, MI
Echinacea purpurea
Very bright pink...this one is actually darker than other seed varieties.
Color is actually darker...picture doesn't do it justice.
7-2011 *Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, MI
7-2011 *Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, MI
7-2011 *Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, MI
Coneflower providing nectar with a backdrop of Limemound Spirea, courtesy of Nita DeJong
06-13-12
06-20-12
Winter interest. After a sleet and ice storm in Nebraska.
July, 2013--Barsons Greenhouse, Westland, MI (Brendas Butterfly House)
July, 2013--Barsons Greenhouse, Westland, MI (Brendas Butterfly House)
July, 2013--Barsons Greenhouse, Westland, MI (Brendas Butterfly House)
A patch I planted in se PA blooming in early July 2012
A group in se PA blooming in July 2010
In Thea's Waihi garden, NZ
Wild variant blooming in my garden in July 2014.
Blooms close up (2015)
Spontaneous white seedling
Spontaneous white seedling
Royal Botanical Gardens. Photo courtesy of Karl Gercens. Copyright Karl Gercens. Conservatory Horticulturist at Longwood Gardens. http://www.karlgercens.com
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Echinacea Species, Eastern Coneflower, Eastern Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
| Type: | Perennials |
| Height: | 24 in. - 6 ft. | 60 cm - 1.8 m |
| Conditions: | Zone 2-10, Full Sun, Sun to Partial Shade |
