Pale purple coneflower
Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 69 cm
- wide
- 38 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Drooping coneflower
Formerly Brauneria pallida, Rudbeckia pallida
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 61 cm to 76 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 2–3 ft; Wikipedia 45–75 cm
- Spread
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension pink, purple; Wikipedia pink, white
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- equinácea pálida
- Estonian
- kahkjas siilkübar
- Swedish
- blek solhatt
- Russian
- Эхинацея бледная
- Polish
- Jeżówka blada
- Arabic
- قنفذية شاحبة
- French
- Échinacée pâle
- Czech
- Třapatkovka bledá
- Finnish
- rohtopunahattu
- Slovak
- echinacea bledá
- Chinese (China)
- 淡紫松果菊
- Chinese
- 淡紫松果菊
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Echinacea pallida (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.