Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Pallida) – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-8b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial 

Flower Color:  Soft Pink to Soft Purple

Flower Size: 3″

Flowering Period:  Late Spring to Early Fall

Flower Type:  Single Daisy, Coneflower

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Birds, Butterflies, Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Drought, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

A low maintenance and tough but beautiful North American native species, Echinacea pallida, commonly known as the Pale Coneflower, is a sturdy perennial that produces lovely daisy-like flowers with bold reddish central cones surrounded by slender drooping soft pink to violet petals. Atop tall sturdy stems that rise above basal mounds of lanceolate foliage, the flowers begin appearing in late spring to early summer and continue all the way through September attracting butterflies, hummingbirds and beneficial pollinators. Removal of spent flower stems will extend the bloom season however will remove the desirable seeds.

The Pale Purple Coneflower is an easy-to-grow, adaptable plant that is tolerant of drought, heat, humidity and poor soil. It will grow in most any average moist but well-drained  to dry soils when established. Best flowering occurs in full to mostly sun. We suggest at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day. Spent flowers can be removed to extend the bloom season and for use in fresh and dried flower arrangements. That said, the plant freely self-seeds if some of the spent flowers/seed heads are left on the plant towards the end of the season.