Index / Search / Echinacea pallida
§1 Plant
Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt.
vernacular pale purple coneflower — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Echinacea
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 106 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 14–40 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.5–7.2
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 1.2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 106,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 106 counties across 11 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 56 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Carroll 05015
- Clark 05019
- Cleburne 05023
- Columbia 05027
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Dallas 05039
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Fulton 05049
- Garland 05051
- Grant 05053
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Independence 05063
- Izard 05065
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lafayette 05073
- Lincoln 05079
- Little River 05081
- Logan 05083
- Lonoke 05085
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Montgomery 05097
- Newton 05101
- Ouachita 05103
- Perry 05105
- Pike 05109
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- Saline 05125
- Scott 05127
- Sebastian 05131
- Sevier 05133
- Sharp 05135
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Yell 05149
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- LaSalle 22059
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ECPA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3150919 ↗Record version
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