paradoxa (yellow coneflower) - yellow flowersĮ. Most of these new cultivars are the result of seedling selection of purple coneflower or crossing between E. There have been multiple new introductions of purple coneflower in many different colors. Plants can get overcrowded and benefit from division every 4 to 6 years. Plants freely and easily re-seed throughout the garden and this can be reduced if you remove flowers after they fade and before they set seed. Goldfinches and other birds like the seed found in the dried black center part of the flower and spent flowers will stand through winter. Deadheading will promote more repeat blooms. Plants have a big flush of bloom in first part of summer with consistent bloom (but fewer) until first frost.
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Great flower for full sun, well drained soils.
Insects & Disease Issues: Leaf spots, Japanese beetle and aster yellows (occasionally), Culture and Uses:
The plants hold the flowers well above the clean foliage, on stems that are plenty long for cutting. From late May until early July, it produces 3- to 4-inch wide daisy-like flowers with pinkish-purple petals and a prominent black central cone. Leaves: 4-8”, dark green, coarse, serrated, short stiff hairs, alternate, simpleįlowers: June-August, purple-pink, purple, white, 3-4” diameter, brown central cone with bronze tint, slightly drooping Magnus purple coneflower grows up to 30 inches tall and, in old plants, can spread that wide.
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