Companion Planting & Garden Value: Purple Coneflower

Echinacea purpurea

Spacing: needs about 4 square feet per plant. Mature height: 2-3 ft.

Pollinator & wildlife value

NC State Extension's plant toolbox names it as a larval host for Silvery Checkerspot and Wavy-lined Emerald caterpillars specifically, notes American goldfinches eat the seed heads (a reason to leave them standing into winter instead of deadheading), and that its dead stems house stem-nesting bees. (source)

Plant these nearby

No well-established companions.

Keep these apart

Nothing it needs to be kept away from.

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Companion planting for Purple Coneflower: which plants to grow next to it, which to keep apart, and the reason behind each pairing.

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