Photo courtesy of Spotswood Greenery
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Echinacea purpurea 'Prairie Splendor'
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Prairie Splendor starts flowering earlier than most coneflowers and keeps going until frost, which stretches the season at both ends. Echinacea purpurea 'Prairie Splendor' is a native selection growing 18 to 22 inches tall and 15 to 18 inches wide in full sun to part sun, hardy from Zone 3 through Zone 8, and it blooms the first season after planting.
The flowers are large rose-pink daisies with a coppery cone, carried on a compact, well-branched plant that holds them upright without staking. It reblooms through the season, and deadheading keeps the run going longer.
Leave the last seedheads standing at the end of the season. Goldfinches strip them through fall and winter, and the dark cones hold their shape under snow.
Purple coneflower takes drought, heat, humidity, poor soil, and clay once established, and full sun gives the sturdiest stems. The compact size suits a container, a front-of-border planting, or a mass planting where the taller coneflowers would want more room. Deer generally leave it alone.
Height 18"- 22" Spread 15"- 18"
USDA Hardiness Zones 3-8
Lowest Temperatures -40°F to -30°F
Full sun to part sun- at least 4 hours direct sun per day
AR, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MI, MO, MS, NC, OH, OK, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV
Reblooming
