Echinacea Magnus Purple 2gal

Echinacea Magnus Purple (Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus') 

Description:
Echinacea Magnus Purple (Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus') is an award-winning, vigorous perennial prized for its large, rosy purple-pink flowers and distinctive flat petals that stay horizontal rather than drooping. Blooming from mid-summer into fall, these bold coneflowers feature prominent coppery-orange centers that attract bees, butterflies, and birds. Magnus Purple is exceptionally hardy, drought tolerant, and easy to grow, thriving in full sun and a wide range of soils-including clay and dry sites. Perfect for borders, pollinator gardens, prairies, and cut flower arrangements, this native plant provides long-lasting color and wildlife value with minimal care.

Plant Characteristics:

• Botanical Name: Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'

• Common Name: Magnus Purple Coneflower, Purple Coneflower

• Type: Herbaceous perennial

• Mature Height: 28–40 inches

• Mature Spread: 18–24 inches

• Growth Habit: Upright, clumping

• Foliage: Medium green, lance-shaped leaves

• Flower Color: Rosy purple-pink petals with coppery-orange cones

• Bloom Time: Mid-summer to fall

• Light Requirements: Full sun (at least 6 hours per day)

• Soil: Well-drained; tolerates dry, average, or clay soils

• Water Needs: Low to average; drought tolerant once established

• Hardiness Zones: USDA 3–9

• Maintenance: Very low; deadhead spent blooms for extended flowering, cut back in early spring

• Resistances: Deer resistant, drought tolerant, tolerant of clay and poor soils

• Wildlife: Attracts bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and birds (seed heads provide winter food)

• Uses: Borders, mass plantings, pollinator gardens, prairies, cut flowers, containers

Care Tips:

• Plant in full sun for best flowering and sturdy stems.

• Water regularly during establishment; reduce watering once mature.

• Deadhead spent flowers to encourage more blooms, or leave seed heads for winter interest and birds.

• Divide clumps every 2–3 years in early spring if crowded.

Bring bold, long-lasting color and pollinator activity to your garden with the easy-care, resilient Echinacea Magnus Purple-perfect for borders, prairies, and bouquets!