Echinacea (Purple Coneflower; Coneflower)

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• Large, daisy-like flowers with large center "cones"
• ​Echinaceas like it sunny and HOT!
• Dead-heading promotes reblooming
• ​Pollinator plants

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pallida

• Long, drooping petals
• ​Pale purple blooms
• Native!
• Drought and heat tolerant
• Poor soil tolerant
• Mass as a naturalized planting
• Attracts pollinators
• Bloom time: summer
• 36” H x 18” W

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Echinacea purpurea 'Ruby Star'

'Pixie Meadowbrite'

• Upward-facing flowers
• Pink blooms
• Horizontal petals and large cones
• Combines beautifully with Asclepias tuberosa and any of the blue Nepetas
• Very floriferous, compact plants
• ​PP 24770
• Bloom time: mid to late summer
• 18” H x 24” W

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Phlox paniculata 'Flame Purple'

'PowWow White'

• Sturdy, well-branched habit
• ​White blooms
• Very floriferous​
• PP 24771 
• Bloom time: summer
• 24" H x 18" W​​

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Leucanthemum x superbum 'Snow Cap'

'Pica Bella'

• Extremely floriferous
• ​Hot pink blooms
• Very long bloom time
• Distinctive pointy petals and large bright orange cone
• Compact plant
• ​PP 24772
• Bloom time: mid to late summer
• 22” H x 18” W

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Echinacea 'Pixie Meadowbrite'

​purpurea 'PowWow Wild Berry'

• Sturdy, well-branched habit
• ​Deep Magenta blooms
• Very floriferous
• Large flowers in deep, non-fading rose-purple 
• PP 24774
• Bloom time: early summer to early fall
• 24” H x 18” W​

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Phlox paniculata 'Flame Purple'

​purpurea 'Ruby Star'

• Hardy, tough classic!
• Purple pink blooms 
• Non-drooping petals
• Great substitute for the old ‘Magnus’ variety
• Bloom time: summer
• ​PP 24775
• 36” H x 24” W

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Echinacea pallida

Sombrero® Hot Coral

• Bright, rich orange and coral tones
• Coral Pink blooms

• Extra-hardy, superior branching plants
• PP 24776
• Bloom time: early to late summer
• 24” H x 18” W

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Achillea millefolium 'Pomegranate'

Asclepias tuberosa

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Sombrero® Lemon Yellow

• Great hardiness, branching, and floriferousness
• Beautiful strong yellow blooms
• ​PP 24777
• Bloom time: early to late summer
• 24” H x 18” W

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Coreopsis verticillata 'Zagreb'

Achillea 'Moonshine'

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Sombrero® Salsa Red

• Same great hardiness and branching as the rest of the Sombrero series.
• Fiery orange red
• ​PP 24778
• Bloom time: early to late summer
• 24” H x 18” W

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Achillea millefolium 'Pomegranate'