Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)

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Common Name:  Purple Coneflower

Attracts:  Bees, Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Birds

Use:  Garden, Monarch Garden

Light:  Full Sun to Part Sun

Hardiness Zone:  3 to 8  USDA Zone Map

Soils:  Dry to Moist

Flower Time:  Mid-June to Mid-August

Flower Color:  Pink Purple

Height:  2 '- 5'

Notes:  Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower) is well-known and loved, with a long-blooming season, a bit short-lived, but so nice, worth replanting every so many years.  Noted as deer-resistant by UVM.

Host plant of VT Bee Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN):
Bombus pensylvanicus (American Bumble bee)

Introduced and naturalized in VT, NY MA, CT, native to much of the Mid-West:   Biota of North America Program (BONAP) – North American Plant Atlas (NAPA).