Pale Purple Coneflower

Echinacea pallida

This coneflower has narrow petals varying from pale pink, sometimes almost white, to hot pink.  One flower appears on each hairy stem. Lower leaves are long (up to one foot) and narrow, untoothed, and parallel-veined. This flower blooms about two weeks earlier than the similar Purple Coneflower.

2-4 feet, sun.

Summer (June-July).

In this young blossom the narrow  petals are not yet reflexed. The stems are covered with white hairs.  

13 June 2020.

Pale Purple Coneflowers, 22 June 2020