Botanical Name: Echinacea purpurea
Common Name: Purple cone flower
Type of Plant: dicot: perennial
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape upright, stiff, coarse-textured plant with large, showy purple flowers at branch tips
Height to 4'
Spread to 5'
Growth Rate rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun to partial shade
Soil prefers a well-drained loamy soil
Hardiness hardy; all zones
 
Morphology:
Leaves lower leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate, coarsely toothed, long-petioled; leaves near flowers are narrower, nearly entire, sessile
Flowers large purple to lavender head to 4" across - large rounded spring through late summer
Fruit achenes in rounded clusters; for a large mass
 
Propagation:
seed, division
 
Usage:
a large perennials, best used with other large-scale plants; useful for color display towards the background of borders or large flower gardens
 
Landscape Care:
Watering average water; tolerates drought when established
Fertilizing balanced in early spring
Pruning head back, divide in fall
Pests/Diseases Japanese beetles
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Central North America
Family: Asteraceae

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