![]() ![]() In time, a bloom stalk shoots forward from the rosette, followed by others. Since Purple Coneflowers range from Texas through the mid-Atlantic states and even a bit north and westward, the timing and severity of freezes and the flush of blooming varies from what Coneflowers experience here in Austin.Īs spring approaches, new foliage emerges and the rosettes thicken. Sometimes after a particularly hard freeze, exposed greenery suffers and the whole foliage rosette dies to the ground they typically emerge in early spring, ready for a long blooming season. In my urban Austin garden, the foliage remains mostly evergreen through winter. If I don’t like where a plant grows, I transplant it or pass it along to another gardener. ![]() I like to plant in groups of three to seven, but I’m happy to let volunteers seed out where they may. Individual plants form rosettes from seed, and those rosettes grow larger with maturity.ĭuring winter, the rosettes are evergreen, or mostly so. In mild winters, Coneflowers bloom sporadically a hard freeze nips the flowers and sends the plant into dormancy. Though not quite as spectacular as in the spring show, there is usually a second flush of blooms during the autumn months. Here in Central Texas, the aster family flowers bloom during spring and summer, resting in the July and August dormant-hot season. Glorious in its spring beauty, this wide-spread North American native is a must-have for any garden. Its flowers are similar to our native Echinacea angustifolia ( Narrow-leaved Purple Coneflower), which has mostly basal leaves that are long and narrow.Are you interested in a long-blooming, tough-as-nails perennial that can withstand heat and drought, freeze and flood? Look no further than this gardener’s favorite, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea. Eastern Purple Coneflower is not native to Minnesota, but is common in roadside plantings, both urban and rural, as well as increasingly a garden escapee. Affected plants should be pulled and can be left in the garden as they pose no risk to healthy plants after uprooting. It can make for thick showy stands in the garden but is subject to aster yellows, a phytoplasma spread by leafhoppers that affects a large number of herbaceous species and causes stunting and yellowing of the foliage and blasting of the flower heads. Stems are mostly unbranched, typically brownish green.Ī native of eastern moist to mesic prairie, Eastern Purple Coneflower is the species typically found in the nursery trade and many colored variants are becoming more common. Stems and leaves are smooth or hairy to varying degrees. Leaves have serrated edges and 3 or 5 distinct veins along the length. Leaves are mostly alternate, sometimes opposite, 3 to 6 inches long, 1 to 3 inches wide, lance-like, broader at the base, tapering to a point, stalked, becoming smaller and stalkless as they ascend the stem. In the center is a large orange-brown disk, round to conical in shape, covered in tiny disk flowers with yellow pollen. Rays grow out and up, curving down with maturity. Flowers are single on end of stout stem, with 15-20 rich pink to purplish rays (petals), each 1½ to 3 inches long and ¼ to ¾ inch wide, with 3 notched teeth at the tip.
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