Eastern Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
Purple flowers from June into August, worked by brown-belted bumble bees and common eastern bumble bees. It grows wild in 40 of Arkansas’s 75 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 3.5 ft to 4 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Purple, Jun to Aug
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Roots; wants 24 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 2 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 34 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis), Common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens), Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens), Ligated furrow bee (Halictus ligatus)
Grows well with
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Calico Aster
New England Aster
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Swamp Azalea
Fragrant Sumac
Facts from the Quercus record for Echinacea purpurea.