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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