
Perennials
Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'
Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus' is a classic purple coneflower with very fragrant rose-pink ray petals surrounding a coppery-brown, spiky central cone forming flat horizontal flower heads. This coneflower's newer blooms are more intense in color and fade to pale rose as they age, lending a bicolor effect to the entire clump. 'Magnus' along with many other coneflower varieties is praised for its large, daisy-like flowers which appear from midsummer thru fall, after many other perennials have finished blooming. Native to much of the United States, purple coneflower is very prolific and very attractive to butterflies! Leave seed-bearing cones standing for birds in late fall and winter.
Additional:
1998 Perennial Plant Association Plant of the Year
Host plant for the following butterflies (nectar)--American Lady, Banded Hairstreak, Black Swallowtail, Clouded Sulphur, Common Checkered Skipper, Common Wood-nymph, Eastern Tailed Blue, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Fiery Skipper, Giant Swallowtail, Gray Hairstreak, Great Spangled Fritillary, Gulf Fritillary, Hayhurst’s Scallopwing, Horace’s Duskywing, Little Glassywing, Monarch, Orange Sulphur, Painted Lady, Pearl Crescent, Peck’s Skipper, Red Admiral, Red-Banded Hairstreak, Red-Spotted Admiral, Sachem, Silvery Checkerspot, Silver-Spotted Skipper, Spicebush Swallowtail, Swallowtail, Tawny-edge Skipper, Variegated Fritillary, Viceroy, Wild Indigo Duskywing, Zabulon
Coneflower Growing and Maintenance Tips:
Will flower for a bit longer if their spent heads are removed, but allowing the seed-filled cones to mature provides excellent food for goldfinches and other seed-eating birds.
Height:24-36 Inches |
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Spread:12-24 Inches |
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Hardiness Zone:3 - 8 |
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