Common Name: Purple Coneflower

Latin Name: Echinacea purpurea

Height: 2-4 feet tall

Duration: Perennial

Bloom Color: Pink, Purple

Bloom Time: June through September

Water Use: Medium

Soil: Well-drained, sandy or richer soils

Light Requirement: Sun, Part Shade

Spreads via seeds

Host Plant:  Purple Coneflower is a host plant for the caterpillar of the silvery checkerspot butterfly.  Female butterflies will often lay large clusters of eggs, as many as 100!

Other pollinators: bees, butterflies, skippers, beetles, and birds enjoy eating the seeds in the winter

Resistant to deer.