Echinacea purpurea Prairie Splendor

Description

Echinacea purpurea Prairie Splendor

Prairie Splendor Echinacea

Prairie Splendor’ is a compact coneflower that features bright rose-magenta rays surrounding a dark orange center cone. It typically grows in a clump to 24″ tall and as wide. Flowers bloom from late spring (two weeks earlier than most echinacea’s) to late summer, sometimes with additional sporadic bloom until frost. Each flower (to 4-5″ diameter) features downward-arching rose-magenta rays. Dark green leaves are lanceolate to narrow-ovate.

Zone: 3 to 8

Height: 1.00 to 2.00 feet

Spread: 1.00 to 2.00 feet

Bloom Time: June to August

Bloom Description: Rose-magenta rays with orange center cone

Sun: Full sun to part shade

Water: Dry to medium

Maintenance: Low

Flower: Showy, Good Cut, Good Dried

Attracts: Birds, Butterflies

Tolerate: Deer, Drought, Clay Soil, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil