Family: Asteraceae
Scientific Name: Echinacea purpurea Flame Thrower
Common Name: Flame Thrower Coneflower
Description | A Coneflower hybrid with bicolored flame orange flowers. |
Pronunciation | (eh-kin-AA-cee-ah) |
Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
Hardiness Zone | 4-8 |
Sunlight | best in full, mostly sunny, light shade |
Moisture | average, tolerates drier conditions once established |
Soil & Site | average, dislikes wet winter soils |
Flowers | petals (ray flowers), bi colored orange, rusty brown center |
Fruit | achene's in the dried center disk |
Leaves | green, coarse, most at base of plant, some on stem but smaller |
Stems | stiff, hairy |
Roots | fiborous |
Dimensions | up to 3 feet |
Maintenance | may reseed in the garden, many times reseeded plants will not be the same as parents, cut back stout stem in fall or leave for winter interest |
Propagation | division |
Cultivar Origin | Terra Nova Nursery USA, 2009 |
Misc Facts | Echinacea from the Greek term for hedgehog, referring to the spiky appearance of the flower head |
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