Pale purple coneflower - Echinacea pallida
Above: Pale purple coneflower on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. (6/29/19).
Pale purple coneflower - Echinacea pallida
The Wisconsin DNR lists the Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida) as a Wisconsin Threatened plant.
Pale purple coneflower grows 2-5' tall and prefer full sun with dry to moderate moisture such as prairies and meadows.
Stems are hairy, green to purplish in color and usually unbranched.
Flower head rays are narrow, linear, elongated (1 1/2" - 3 1/2" long and less than 1/4" wide) and drooping. They are pink to
pale purple in color and surround a prominent reddish brown domed cone covered in tiny red/brown disk florets.
When the ray florets shrivel away the central cone turns black.
Blooms June - August.
Other names include: Prairie coneflower.
Latin: Echinacea: Greek meaning "sea urchin" or "hedgehog" referring to sharp, spiny chaff on domed center of head.
Above: Pale purple coneflower on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 12, 2019. The leaves are clearly visible.
For more information on Pale purple coneflower, visit Wikipedia.
Or, visit the UW-Madison Wisconsin State Herbarium website page about Pale purple coneflower.
Or, visit the Wisconsin DNR website page about Pale purple coneflower.
Note: some of the flowers shown below might actually be purple coneflowers. When identifying this flower, you must see the leaves to be certain.
Pale purple coneflower
Echinacea pallida
Above: Pale purple coneflower on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. Long, slender leaves are clearly visible. (6/11/19)
Above: Pale purple coneflower on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. (6/26/22)
Above: Pale purple coneflower on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. (6/16/21)
Above: Pale purple coneflower on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. (6/26/19)
Above: Pale purple coneflower on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. (6/21/21)
Above: Pale purple coneflower on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. (6/22/21)
Above: Pale purple coneflower on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. (7/08/19)
Above: Pale purple coneflower seed pod on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. (9/28/19)
Above: Pale purple coneflower seed pod on the banks of the retaining pond on the corner of Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. (9/8/19)
Above: (Questonable) I believe this is a purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) as it is not very tall and was in the Nakoma Park woods where I clearly viewed the leaves of other Purple Coneflowers. (8/19/20)
