Echinacea pallida
Echinacea pallida photo Missouri Botanical Gardens
Pale Coneflower

With slender petals surrounding the central cone, Pale Purple Coneflower offers a different look in coneflowers for your pollinator-friendly garden. This native wildflower blooms earlier than most coneflowers, from early to mid-summer, offering food for bees and butterflies. Though it has a delicate, wispy appearance,  it is a tough plant and will make a beautiful show in the garden. 

  • Height: 60-90 cm (24-36 in)
  • Spread: 45-60 cm (18-24 in)
  • Cold Hardiness: Zone 3-8
  • Sun or Shade: full sun
  • Bloom Time: early ro mid summer
  • Leaf Colour: green
  • Bloom Colour: pinky purple
  • Critter Resistance: deer
  • Nature Attraction: bees and butterflies

Growing and Maintenance Tips

Echinacea pallida is highly adaptable, tolerating drought, heat, humidity and poor soils, but it will not like soils that are too moist with poor drainage. Once established the deep taproot enables a long-lived, very low maintenance plant that is capable of handling hot dry situations. This native prairie plant looks its best in a naturalized setting that includes other prairie flowers and grasses, or in a mixed border garden.

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