Echinacea purpurea(L.) Moench

purple coneflower

WFO wfo-0000036347 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Echinacea purpurea, photographed by tzeducation
fig. a tzeducation, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-02 / obs. 161131236
Echinacea purpurea, photographed by john_hall
fig. b john_hall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157017349
Echinacea purpurea, photographed by tzeducation
fig. c tzeducation, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158858562
Echinacea purpurea, photographed by Tom Lazar
fig. d Tom Lazar, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160379774
Echinacea purpurea, photographed by Tom Lazar
fig. e Tom Lazar, CC0 1.0 / obs. 157246907
Echinacea purpurea, photographed by sudomir
fig. f sudomir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156446060
Echinacea purpurea, photographed by Tom Lazar
fig. g Tom Lazar, CC0 1.0 / obs. 155962175
Echinacea purpurea, photographed by Tom Lazar
fig. h Tom Lazar, CC0 1.0 / obs. 159868106

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Flowering n = 3,761 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 3,761 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Brauneria purpurea (L.) Britton
  • Echinacea intermedia Lindl. ex Paxton
  • Echinacea purpurea f. liggettii Steyerm.
  • Echinacea purpurea f. purpurea
  • Echinacea purpurea var. arkansana Steyerm.
  • Echinacea purpurea var. purpurea
  • Echinacea serotina (Nutt.) D.Don ex G.Don
  • Helichroa purpurea (L.) Raf.
  • Rudbeckia hispida Hoffmanns.
  • Rudbeckia purpurea L.
  • Rudbeckia purpurea var. purpurea

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.