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Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours) Soil Texture: Clay High Organic Matter Loam (Silt) Sand Shallow Rocky Soil pH: Neutral (6.0-8.0) Soil Drainage: Good Drainage Moist Occasionally Dry Available Space To Plant: 12 inches-3 feet NC Region: Coastal Mountains Piedmont USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5b, 5a, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9b, 9a.Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial Perennial Habit/Form: Clumping Dense Erect Growth Rate: Rapid Maintenance: Low Texture: Coarse.Play Value: Attractive Flowers Attracts Pollinators Easy to Grow Wildlife Food Source Dimensions: Height: 1 ft. Songbirds, especially American goldfinches, eat the seeds. Attributes: Genus: Echinacea Species: purpurea Family: Asteraceae Life Cycle: Perennial Fire Risk Rating: medium flammability Wildlife Value: Its flowers are attractive to bees, butterflies and other pollinators.Tags: #showy flowers #heat tolerant #drought tolerant #fall flowers #purple flowers #pink flowers #tough plant #low maintenance #cottage garden #mass planting #flower arrangements #fast growing #summer flowers #children's garden #long bloom time #rock garden #border planting #self-seeding #cutting garden #pollinator plant #clumping #dried arrangements #poor soils tolerant #compact habit #bird friendly #butterfly friendly #container plant Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: It is susceptible to aster yellows disease. Insects, Diseases, or Other Plant Problems: Japanese beetles and leaf spot are occasional problems. The flowers can be enjoyed snipped from in a cutting garden fresh or dried and used in arrangments. This is a popular and long-blooming plant that works well mass planted in a border, in a pollinator, cottage, or rock garden, and even in containers. Leave some of the flower heads on to produce seeds for the birds. Several pollinators are attracted to the flower, especially butterflies. It is easily propagated by seed and will reseed itself in the garden. It is drought tolerant once established and can grow in full sun to partial shade. This plant prefers well-drained, moist loam but is adaptable to various soil types. This cultivar grows 1 to 2 feet tall with showy rosy pink flowers that appear mid-summer and persist well into fall without the need to dead-head. PowWow® Wild Berry Coneflower is a compact, herbaceous perennial in the Asteraceae (daisy) family.

2010 AAS flower award winner.Phonetic Spelling ek-in-AY-shee-a pur-PUR-ee-uh Description X SC Exotic Plant Pest Council Web site at ġ9. Perennial Resource. This plant does not appear on the following invasive plant lists on (): X USDA SC Invasive Plant Species Web site at Plants are relatively pest resistant if cultural preferences are met. Pests: No serious insect or disease problems 12. Plants rebloom well without deadheading, however prompt removal of spent flowers encourages continued bloom and improves general appearance. Divide clumps when they become overcrowded (about every 4 years). Do not allow mulch to touch the plant stems 18. Modify water recommendations to reflect site drainage and rainfall. Keep soil moist until plant is established, then apply enough water to thoroughly moisten the root zone when the soil is dry or during drought. At planting, water the roots and surrounding area slowly and deeply. It will tolerate partial shade, but prefers full sun 12.Ĭare: Plant crown at soil level 18. Siting: Echinacea purpurea ‘PowWow Wild Berry’ needs adequate room to properly branch out in well-drained, sandy or richer soils 10. Attracts many hummingbirds and butterflies, and used medicinally as an extract or herbal tea.

Superior performance including a basal branching habit that results in more flowers per plant 20. 10įeatures: Large, showy, deep rose-purple flowers on wide, sturdy, well-branched stems 12. Used as mild natural antibiotic thought to improve white blood cell count.


Latin name: Echinacea purpurea ‘PowWow Wild Berry’ Common name: Purple Coneflower Flowers: Large, deep rose-purple flowers in a floriferous bloom from late spring to late summer 12 Fruit: Inconspicuous 20 Height & Width: 2-3’ x 1-1.5’ 12 Type: Herbaceous perennial 12 Habit: Compact, upright 20 Wetland indicator category: UPL 17 Texture: Medium 10 Growth rate: Medium 12 Light: Full sun to part shade 12 Moisture: Dry to medium 19 Soil: Tolerates a wide variety of soil types and pH 12 Zones: 3-8 19 Origin: Central to Eastern United States, including South Carolina 16 Ecosystem benefits: Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
