Product Description
Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan' (3.5-inch pot)
Common Name: White Swan Coneflower
- Height: 2-3 Feet
- Spread: 12-18 Inches
- Hardiness Zone: 3-8
- Full Sun
- Blooms Summer into Fall
- White petals around golden center cones
- Thrives in Summer heat
- Great cut flower
Echinacea pupurea 'White Swan' stands tall in the perennial garden. Dark green leaves are 4"-8" long, serrated, coarse and hairy. It is slow to emerge in the Spring but picks up speed once it turns hot. Blooms are daisy like with White petals circling a golden center cone. Blooms mid-Summer into Fall. Blooms are 3"-4" wide on stems shooting up above the foliage. Attracts butterflies and pollinators. Makes an excellent cut flower. Prefers average, well drained soil and will do well in poor soil. Tolerant of heat and humidity, it is a tough perennial of the prairie gardens. Performs best in Full Sun. Can be leggy in Part Shade. Mature height 2"-3', spread 1'-1.5'.
Echinacea purpurea is a wildflower native to the eastern United States and is well-adapted to survive the hot, windy conditions typical of that region. If properly cared for, they will form attractive colonies and will live for many years.
Coneflowers like it sunny and hot. Though they will tolerate light shade, fewer flowers will be produced, and the plants will be weakened. Light, loamy soils are best, but coneflowers will grow in any well-drained soil. Once established, they are quite drought tolerant.
Excellent as a border plant, in mass or containers, as cut flower or foliage, dried flower or seed heads; fragrant flowers attract butterflies. If deadheaded, the bloom cycle will be extended. However, some spent blooms should be left on the plants in fall because their seeds provide winter food for finches and other birds. The dried seed heads also provide interest in the winter. Deer resistant.