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Echinacea pallida
pale purple coneflower
- Category: Perennial
- Hardiness Zone: 3-8
- Height: 36 Inches
- Spread: 12 Inches
- Spacing: 24 Inches
- Bloom Color: Pink, Purple
Echinacea pallida is a robust, unbranched perennial featuring slim, lanceolate leaves. During summer, the plants boast charming daisy-like blossoms with striking reddish central cones and delicate, drooping, pale violet petals.
Plug Type
| • | Landscape Plug™ |
Propagation Type
| • | Seed cultivar |
Additional Information about Echinacea pallida
Pale Purple Coneflower is a striking native perennial, known for its elegant, daisy-like blooms that appear in early summer. With soft purple petals that droop gracefully from a central cone, the flowers are a favorite among pollinators—drawing in butterflies, bees, and even hummingbirds. As the season progresses, the large seed heads mature and become a valuable food source for Goldfinches and other birds.
Highly adaptable and tough, Echinacea pallida thrives in heat, drought, humidity, and poor soils, though it prefers well-drained conditions and struggles in wet, heavy soils. Once established, its deep taproot supports a long-lived, low-maintenance plant that excels in hot, dry environments.
This iconic prairie species adds beauty and ecological value to any planting. It looks especially at home in naturalized meadows or prairie-inspired gardens, where it blends beautifully with other wildflowers and native grasses. It also makes a stunning addition to mixed borders, bringing texture, color, and pollinator support to sunny garden spaces.
Historically, Native Americans utilized Purple Coneflowers as medicinal plants. Today, there remains a market for their roots, which are employed in the creation of herbal medicines and tonics.
Growing & Maintenance Tips for Echinacea pallida
It should be planted in well-drained soil with full to partial sunlight exposure. These native plants generally do not thrive in overly moist or poorly drained soil, as they are prone to rotting under such conditions. Once its taproot is established, it becomes highly drought-tolerant and require minimal care, although they may become difficult to transplant thereafter.
