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Purple Coneflower

Purple coneflower is native to eastern North America. Plants grow 2 to 5 feet tall. Flowers have a daisy-like appearance, but all petals meet and join at a large elevated center structure, creating a cone shape. Butterflies flock to coneflowers. When the flower dries in late summer or early autumn, the seeds are found in the center of the cone. These seeds attract a variety of songbirds to a landscape.

A purple coneflower floral bud preparing to open purple coneflowers have raised centers of the flower that give them the cone shape purple coneflower flowers purple coneflower plants in bloom in a patch surroundiing a tree Close-up of purple coneflower plants