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Echinacea purpurea Purple Coneflower

Ohio Native Plant Natural Range

To view the natural range of Echinacea purpurea visit the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service website. Native Plant of the Year - LEAP (Lake Erie Allegheny Partnership for Biodiversity) - Native Plant of the Year 2017
Purple Coneflowers with Purple Liatris
Coneflowers by Jim Wohl
A field of Purple Coneflowers, which appears to go on forever. They are growing so close together that it looks like they are a choir. Photo  by Beth Reis
A field of Purple Coneflowers by Beth Reis


Cultivation Information Echinacea purpurea


Pronounced - eck-in-AY-see-ah
Sun - Full sun, part sunHeight - 2 - 3 ftFlower Color - PurpleBlooms - July - SeptemberHardy Zone - 4 to 9Soil - Well drained
Family - Asteraceae
Five Purple Conflowers three are open next to a fence.
Purple Coneflower - By Jim Wohl
Bright pink flower of Purple Coneflower.
Purple Coneflower - by Roger Dahlin

Wildlife Significance Purple Coneflower

Nectar Source - For wasps, butterflies: Swallowtail, Viceroy, Monarchs, sulfurs, grass skippers, fritillaries numerous bees including bumblebees, sweat bee and sunflower leafcutter bees. flies, and beetles
Pollen Source - Bees, flies and beetles
Host plant - For the Pearl Crescent butterfly, various checkerspots as well as 12 other butterflies.
Oligolectic Bees - are bees that are very particular as to what plant family they gather their nectar and pollen. Purple Coneflower is such a plant for the Andrena helianthiformis. Andrea - Mining Bees
For detailed information visit the Illnois Wildflower site

A close up shot of two small native bees on top of a Purple Coneflower that has long droopy petals. Photo by Jim Wohl
Two bees on Purple Coneflower Jim Wohl
Propagation Notes Purple Coneflower
Seed Stratification
Resources indicate - that cold moist storage is not necessary. I have had better luck stratifying seeds either in the refrigerator for a few months or sowing seed in the fall
Seed Provenance Echinacea purpurea
Nodding Onion Gardens - 2012 - present - Prairie Moon Nursery, Winona, MN - 2011
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