Purple coneflower pow wow full#

Flowers: Flower Color: Pink Purple/Lavender Flower Inflorescence: Head Flower Value To Gardener: Good Cut Good Dried Long Bloom Season Showy Flower Bloom Time: Fall Summer Flower Shape: Radial Flower Petals: 7 - 20 petals/rays Flower Size: 3-6 inches Flower Description: Showy purple pink flowers appear from summer through mid-fall.Sided achenes that are attractive to birds. Fruit: Fruit Color: Black Display/Harvest Time: Fall Summer Fruit Type: Achene Fruit Length:

Purple coneflower pow wow full#

Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours) Soil Texture: Clay High Organic Matter Loam (Silt) Sand Shallow Rocky Soil pH: Neutral (6.0-8.0) Soil Drainage: Good Drainage Moist Occasionally Dry Available Space To Plant: 12 inches-3 feet NC Region: Coastal Mountains Piedmont USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5b, 5a, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9b, 9a.Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial Perennial Habit/Form: Clumping Dense Erect Growth Rate: Rapid Maintenance: Low Texture: Coarse.Play Value: Attractive Flowers Attracts Pollinators Easy to Grow Wildlife Food Source Dimensions: Height: 1 ft. Songbirds, especially American goldfinches, eat the seeds. Attributes: Genus: Echinacea Species: purpurea Family: Asteraceae Life Cycle: Perennial Fire Risk Rating: medium flammability Wildlife Value: Its flowers are attractive to bees, butterflies and other pollinators.Tags: #showy flowers #heat tolerant #drought tolerant #fall flowers #purple flowers #pink flowers #tough plant #low maintenance #cottage garden #mass planting #flower arrangements #fast growing #summer flowers #children's garden #long bloom time #rock garden #border planting #self-seeding #cutting garden #pollinator plant #clumping #dried arrangements #poor soils tolerant #compact habit #bird friendly #butterfly friendly #container plant Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: It is susceptible to aster yellows disease. Insects, Diseases, or Other Plant Problems: Japanese beetles and leaf spot are occasional problems. The flowers can be enjoyed snipped from in a cutting garden fresh orВ dried and used in arrangments. This is a popular and long-blooming plant that works well mass planted in a border, in a pollinator, cottage, or rock garden, and even in containers. Leave some of the flower heads on to produce seeds for the birds.

Several pollinators are attracted to the flower, especially butterflies. It is easily propagated by seed and will reseed itself in the garden. It is drought tolerant once established and can grow in full sun to partial shade. This plant prefers well-drained, moist loam but is adaptable to various soil types. This cultivar grows 1 to 2 feet tall with showy rosy pink flowers that appear mid-summer and persist well into fall without the need to dead-head. PowWowВ® Wild Berry Coneflower is a compact, herbaceous perennial in the Asteraceae (daisy) family. POWWOW WILD BERRY is a 2010 All-America Selection (AAS) winner.Phonetic Spelling ek-in-AY-shee-a pur-PUR-ee-uh Description Narrow-ovate leaves (to 6вЂќ long) are medium green. Each flower (to 3-4' diameter) features downward-arching, overlapping, deep rose-purple rays which encircle a large orange-brown center cone. It typically grows in an upright clump to 2-3' tall and to 1-1.5' wide on sturdy, well-branched stems that do not need staking. POWWOW WILD BERRY is a purple coneflower that features large, deep rose-purple flowers in a floriferous bloom from late spring to late summer, sometimes with additional sporadic bloom until frost. Genus name of Echinacea comes from the Greek word echinos meaning hedgehog or sea-urchin in reference to the spiny center cone found on most flowers in the genus. The dead flower stems will remain erect well into the winter, and if flower heads are not removed, the blackened cones may be visited by goldfinches or other birds that feed on the seeds. Showy daisy-like purple coneflowers (to 5' diameter) bloom throughout summer atop stiff stems clad with coarse, ovate to broad-lanceolate, dark green leaves. Echinacea purpurea, commonly called purple coneflower, is a coarse, rough-hairy, herbaceous perennial that is native to moist prairies, meadows and open woods of the central to southeastern United States (Ohio to Michigan to Iowa south to Louisiana and Georgia).