| Description | A Purple Coneflower cultivar with extra large mostly horizontal rosy red flowers. |
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| Pronunciation | (eh-kin-AA-cee-ah) (pur-pur-EE-ah) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | best in full, mostly sunny, light shade |
| Moisture | average, tolerates drier conditions once established |
| Soil & Site | average, tolerates drier conditions once established, dislikes wet winter soils |
| Flowers | rosey red, up to 4.5 inches with a horizontal form, blooms mid to end of July through mid May |
| Fruit | achenes in the dried center disk |
| Leaves | coarse, most at base of plant, some on stem but smaller |
| Stems | have short bristly hairs |
| Dimensions | 2-3 feet tall, space up to 24 inches |
| Maintenance | may reseed in the garden, cut back stout stem in fall or leave for winter interest |
| Propagation | division |
| Misc Facts | Echinacea from the Greek term for hedgehog, referring to the spiky appearance of the flower head. |
| Author's Notes | Echinacea have beautiful flowers, now available in a wide range of colors, but the foliage is on the coarse side and many times starts to fade a way or deteriorate sooner than other plants. Using in combination with other plants will help mask these problems. |
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