Purple Coneflower - Echinace purpurea

Latin Name:

Echinace purpurea

Regular price $14.99 CAD
SKU: 38805
We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors.Listing is for 5 Seeds Echinacea is a suitable addition to a prairie garden and attractive in flower arrangements. It is a popular perennial with smooth stems and long-lasting, lavender flowers. Rough, scattered leaves that become small toward the top of the stem. Flowers occur singly atop the stems and have domed, purplish-brown, spiny centers and drooping, lavender rays. 2-5 ft. stems and long-lasting, lavender flowers. Rough, scattered leaves that become small toward the top of the stem. Flowers occur singly atop the stems and have domed, purplish-brown,...

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Meet Echinace purpurea. The common name for this is Purple Coneflower. Stargazer Exotics is proud to offer the freshest of rare plant seeds. Other Common names for this rare Other Rare Plants are: Echinacea, Eastern Purple Coneflower, Hedgehog Coneflower. Check thisPurple Coneflower (Echinace purpurea) out along with all of our Other Rare Plants seeds here at Stargazer Exotics. We ship these Other Rare Plants seeds from Canada to anywhere in the World.
$14.99 CAD
We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors.
Listing is for 5 Seeds

Echinacea is a suitable addition to a prairie garden and attractive in flower arrangements. It is a popular perennial with smooth stems and long-lasting, lavender flowers. Rough, scattered leaves that become small toward the top of the stem. Flowers occur singly atop the stems and have domed, purplish-brown, spiny centers and drooping, lavender rays. 2-5 ft. stems and long-lasting, lavender flowers. Rough, scattered leaves that become small toward the top of the stem. Flowers occur singly atop the stems and have domed, purplish-brown, spiny centers and drooping, lavender rays. An attractive perennial with purple (rarely white), drooping rays surrounding a spiny, brownish central disk.

The genus name is from the Greek echinos, meaning "hedgehog," an allusion to the spiny, brownish central disk. The flowers of Echinacea species are used to make an extremely popular herbal tea, purported to help strengthen the immune system; an extract is also available in tablet or liquid form in pharmacies and health food stores. Often cultivated, Purple Coneflower is a showy, easily grown garden plant.

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