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White Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)

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Botanical name: Echinacea purpurea • Bloom season: Summer to fall • Bloom color: White with orange cone


The white coneflower has a sturdy structure, with clean white petals against the same coppery cone, so the contrast is sharper and it seems brighter in evening light. It mixes with anything, and it lights up a bed at dusk. Butterflies visit the cone through late summer, and finches take the seed through winter.

Botanical name: Echinacea purpurea • Bloom season: Summer to fall • Bloom color: White with orange cone


The white coneflower has a sturdy structure, with clean white petals against the same coppery cone, so the contrast is sharper and it seems brighter in evening light. It mixes with anything, and it lights up a bed at dusk. Butterflies visit the cone through late summer, and finches take the seed through winter.

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Plant Characteristics

Botanical Name: Echinacea purpurea

Common Name: Coneflower (white)

Native: Native

Sun: Full Sun to Part Sun

Water: Moderate

Bloom Time: Summer to fall

Bloom Color: White with orange cone

Pollinators: Bees; Butterflies

Deer Resistant: Yes

Mature Size: W 18"-24" x H 2'-3'

Soil: Well-drained; average to lean garden soil

Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

USDA Zones: 3 to 9

Spread Habit: Clumping

Available As: Live plant

Native Region: Eastern & Central N.A. (outside western regions)

Growing Notes

Full sun to part sun in average to lean, well-drained soil. Space about 18 inches apart. It is long-lived and deep-rooted, which makes it one of the more forgiving natives for a customer starting out. Water moderately in the first year, only during a prolonged dry spell.

  • Water: Moderate

  • Sun: Full Sun to Part Sun

  • Soil: Well-drained; average to lean garden soil

  • Mature size: 2 to 4 ft by 18 to 24 in

Maintenance

Leave the seed heads standing all winter, which is the single most valuable thing you can do with this plant; goldfinches strip them through the cold months. Cut back in late spring, keeping about a third of the stems for insects. Deadheading during the season prolongs bloom but costs you the seed, so choose. Divide every four years if the center opens up.