Purple Coneflower

Brand: American Beauties Native Plants®

Color: Purple Shades

Features:

• Attracts butterflies in large numbers
• Hummingbirds thrive on the sweet nectar
• Finches crave its seed in the fall
• Long blooming and a colorful cut flower
• Drought tolerant once established
• Looks terrific planted with native grasses

Details: Echinacea purpurea is one of the great butterfly magnets of the native perennial garden. Coneflowers are easy to grow in average to dry, well-drained soils. Flowers with large orange-gold spiky centers and strong reflexed rose-pink petals appear in July and August. Very drought tolerant.

Image Courtesy of North Creek