A vastly improved form whose sturdy stems have multiple branches, thus carry more flowers, which are large, ruby pink, and fragrant. A sport of 'Ruby Star'.
Echinacea, a North American genus in the Daisy family, has big, bright flowers that appear from late June until frost. Plants thrive in average soils or hot, dry conditions and shrug off cold. Blooms last well cut or dried, and the seeds in the large cone at the heart of the flower head provide nourishment for birds. Coneflower, E. purpurea is a rugged species that is native from Iowa and Ohio south to Louisiana and Georgia.
