Echinacea purpurea

Purple Coneflower or Echinacea purpurea is an extremely choice wildflower that has found lasting popularity with gardeners from coast to coast.

This is a dependable flowering and hardy perennial that stands up well to the cold of winter and heat of summer.

These tall perennials make an eye catching border from mid to late summer. Flowers normally persist for about two months.

The daisy like coneflower are found in shades of:

• Purple
• Rose
• Pink
• White
• and Yellow

Here in what’s referred to as Green Country in eastern Oklahoma when the native Echinacea are in flower and the price is good for the roots, you will see our local Native Americans digging up five gallon buckets full of this perennial that is used for medicinal purposes.

Friction with land owners can develop when permission is not first obtained to harvest on private property and I have noticed that many will block access to their land.