Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Species Eastern purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
At a glance
- Lifecycle
- Perennial (hardy)
- Exposure
- Full sun
- Germination temperature
- 20–24 °C
- Ideal germination temperature
- 19 °C
- Germination time
- 5–50 days
- Sowing depth
- 0 mm
- Spacing
- 35 cm
- Frost limit
- −25 °C
Same genus
- Pale purple coneflower (Echinacea pallida)
- Blacksamson echinacea (Echinacea angustifolia)
- Topeka purple coneflower (Echinacea atrorubens)
- Smooth purple coneflower (Echinacea laevigata)
- Bush's purple coneflower (Echinacea paradoxa)
- Sanguin purple coneflower (Echinacea sanguinea)
- Wavyleaf purple coneflower (Echinacea simulata)
- Tennessee purple coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis)