Growing coneflowers (Echinacea spp.) is the easiest way to make your summer gardens pop. Give them six hours of sunlight coupled with well-draining soils, and they'll graciously bloom their heads off, ...

The Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) is a native perennial often found at the top of the beginning gardener’s lists. Personally, I think it belongs at the top of all gardener’s lists. Unlike ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Nine species of ...

This week and next could be your last chance this year to see a proliferation of pale purple coneflowers in northern Illinois natural areas. But wait, purple coneflowers bloom in July and August, ...

Purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, is a native perennial in most of the eastern United States, thriving in zones 3 through 9. The genus name, Echinacea, originates from the Greek word echinos, ...

The first day of summer is one week away, but hot, humid summer weather is here. East Texans need tough plants that thrive and provide summer color throughout the summer months. Native plants fill ...

WASHINGTON - It's easy to see why coneflowers have become such a mainstay of the early summer garden and are among the perennials that forward-thinking gardeners are buying now. As tall purple daisies ...

If you love purple coneflowers, then you have to put Prairie Splendor at the top of your list. Echinaceas have undergone quite a transformation in recent years with the additions of other colors and ...

Thanks to the efforts of many partners who have worked together for more than 30 years to expand and protect this sunflower’s colonies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is removing the Tennessee ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The purple coneflower referred to as Echinacea (Brauneria) pallida in the numerous ecological publications of John E. Weaver on the Central ...