Exposure • Sun

Soil Moisture Needs • Wet

Critter Resistance • Deer Resistant

Nature Attraction • Butterflies

Season of Interest (Flowering) • Foliage • Summer

Bloom Color • Pink

Attributes • Good Cut Flowers • For Bird Lovers • For Clay Soils • Drought Tolerant • Long Blooming

Water Requirements • Water weekly during dry spells

Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'

Purple Coneflower

A popular border plant due to its easy care, tolerance of difficult soils and free-flowering nature. The rose-purple, daisylike flowers with a rust-colored center and nondrooping petals are excellent used cut or dried. 1998 Perennial Plant of the Year.

Echinacea (ek-i-na'-se-a)

Family: Asteraceae · Common Name: Coneflower

These long-blooming purple, rose or white daisies have coppery maroon centers and attract butterflies to a wide range of landscape settings. Tolerates dry, poor soils; easy to grow. Excellent cut flowers.