Native / Warm season
Purple Coneflower
Sunny perennial pollinator beds and bird-friendly seed heads.
Grown for flowers and seed heads, not culinary harvest.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 365
- Germination temperature
- 65-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 24 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 8 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 14 days before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days after last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water in year one; drought tolerant later.
- Soil
- Average, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Do not expect full mature bloom density in the first season from seed.
- native
- perennial
- pollinators
- seed-heads
Browse context
- Native Catalog Category collection
- Aster Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: Penn State plant factsheets