Purple coneflower
Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- 41 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Eastern purple coneflower, Eastern purple-coneflower, Purple-coneflower
Formerly Brauneria purpurea, Echinacea intermedia, Echinacea serotina, Helichroa alba, and 12 more
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
- C. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.2 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1–1.5 m; NC State Extension 3–4 ft
- Spread
- 30 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; NC State Extension 1–2 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Pink, purple, brownRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS brown, pink, purple; NC State Extension brown, orange, pink, purple, red, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -27.5 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -15 °C; NC State Extension -40 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- ECHPUR, Purpurpura Piramide de fuj
- French
- Échinacée pourpre
- Estonian
- punane siilkübar, purpur-siilkübar, punane päevakübar
- Spanish
- Equinacea púrpura
- Chinese
- 紫錐菊, 松果菊
- Russian
- Эхинацея пурпурная
- German
- Purpur-Sonnenhut
- Czech
- třapatkovka nachová
- Japanese
- ムラサキバレンギク
- Swedish
- röd solhatt
- Chinese (China)
- 紫松果菊, 松果菊
- Lithuanian
- Rausvažiedė ežiuolė
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Echinacea purpurea (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.