Index / Search / Echinacea purpurea
§1 Plant
Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench
vernacular eastern 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 Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 222 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- 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
- 24 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
- Purple
- 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
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 115,664
- 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 222 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Boone 05009
- Clark 05019
- Cleburne 05023
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Fulton 05049
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Independence 05063
- Izard 05065
- Jackson 05067
- Logan 05083
- Lonoke 05085
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Mississippi 05093
- Montgomery 05097
- Newton 05101
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- Searcy 05129
- Sharp 05135
- Stone 05137
- Van Buren 05141
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Brown 17009
- Calhoun 17013
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Clay 17025
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- Cumberland 17035
- Fayette 17051
- Greene 17061
- Hancock 17067
- Henry 17073
- Jackson 17077
- Jasper 17079
- Jersey 17083
- Johnson 17087
- Kane 17089
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- Macon 17115
- Macoupin 17117
- McDonough 17109
- Monroe 17133
- Montgomery 17135
- Morgan 17137
- Moultrie 17139
- Peoria 17143
- Pike 17149
- Pope 17151
- Sangamon 17167
- Schuyler 17169
- Scott 17171
- Shelby 17173
- St. Clair 17163
- Stark 17175
- Union 17181
- Warren 17187
- Will 17197
- Williamson 17199
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Carroll 28015
- Chickasaw 28017
- Claiborne 28021
- Clarke 28023
- Clay 28025
- Copiah 28029
- Franklin 28037
- Grenada 28043
- Hinds 28049
- Jasper 28061
- Kemper 28069
- Lafayette 28071
- Lee 28081
- Madison 28089
- Newton 28101
- Noxubee 28103
- Oktibbeha 28105
- Pontotoc 28115
- Prentiss 28117
- Rankin 28121
- Scott 28123
- Smith 28129
- Tishomingo 28141
- Washington 28151
- Yazoo 28163
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 4 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ECPU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3150935 ↗Record version
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