Purple Coneflower Texas Native offering a feast for goldfinches

offering a feast for goldfinches and other seed-loving birds that might visit the blackened cones left behind

so in most years it should be used as an annual in all but South Texas

Echinacea purpurea

Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus)

Tradescantia occidentalis

Purple Coneflower Texas Native offering a feast for goldfinchesEchinacea purpurea, often called the purple coneflower, is a lovely perennial herbaceous plant that hails from the central to southeastern United States. You can find it thriving in moist prairies, meadows, and open woods, spreading its beauty from Ohio to Michigan, Iowa, and all the way down to Louisiana and Georgia. Typically growing between 2 to 4 feet, it showcases stunning daisy like purple flowers all summer long! These charming flowers emerge