Echinacea 'Pow Wow White'- Qt. Pots - Flat of 10
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There’s a steadiness to PowWow White—clean, bright, and untroubled by heat or drought. Broad white petals fall away from a warm golden cone, giving the whole flower a simple, honest form that reads clearly from a distance and holds its dignity up close.
This is not a finicky hybrid that fades after one season. It’s a true Echinacea purpurea selection, bred to bloom from seed in its first year and to come back stronger with each passing summer. Plants form sturdy, upright clumps that don’t collapse at the first storm, and they keep producing blooms long after most perennials have called it quits.
Set it in borders, meadow-style plantings, or among grasses where its white blooms will drift like light through the planting. Bees work it steadily, butterflies follow, and when the flowers pass, the seed heads remain—feeding birds and giving structure through the colder months.
Name(s): Echinacea purpurea 'Pow Wow White', Brauneria purpurea, Eastern Purple Cone Flower
Flower Color: White, rust colored center.
Bloom Time: July to September
Foliage: Herbaceous.
Height/Spread: 20 inches to 24 inches x 16 inches.
Climate Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Sun Exposure: Full sun to light shade
Soil Condition: Well-drained to dry, average, pH 6.6 to 8.5
Features: Drought tolerant, heat tolerant, deer resistant, attracts butterflies.
Uses: Xeriscaping, massed planting, naturalizing, cutting gardens, butterfly gardens, herb gardens, native plant collections, medicinal plant collections.
Comments: Coneflower attracts Common Wood-nymph, Giant Swallowtail, Gulf Fritillary, Red Admiral, Red-Spotted Admiral, Viceroy, Spicebush Swallowtail, Zebra Heliconian, American Lady, Cabbage White, Common Checkered Skipper, Clouded Skipper, Fiery Skipper, Dun Skipper, Pecks Skipper, Zabulon Skipper, Tawny-edged Skipper, Silver-Spotted Skipper, Orange Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur, Zebra Swallowtail, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Black Swallowtail, Banded Hairstreak, Gray Hairstreak, Red-Banded Hairstreak, Great Southern White, Variegated Fritillary, Great Spangled Fritillary, Hayhurst’s Scallopwing, Horace’s Duskywing, Wild Indigo Duskywing, Little Glassywing, Monarch, Painted Lady, Pearl Crescent, Sachem, Silvery Checkerspot., and other butterflies.
Key Features
- Crisp white petals with prominent golden-orange cones
- Blooms heavily from early summer through fall
- Strong, upright habit—no flopping
- Excellent heat and drought tolerance once established
- Attracts pollinators; seed heads feed birds in winter
Reliable, long-lived, and quietly striking—PowWow White is the kind of plant that earns its place year after year without asking much in return.
Name(s): Echinacea purpurea 'Pow Wow White'
Flower Color: White
Bloom Time: Late summer.
Foliage: Herbaceous, green.
Height/Spread: 20 inches to 24 inches x 12 inches to 16 inches.
Climate Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Sun Exposure: Full sun
Soil Condition: Well-drained to dry, average to poor, pH 5.1 to 8.5
Features: Drought tolerant, low maintenance, attracts butterflies.
Uses: Xeriscaping, massed planting, naturalizing, ground cover, native plant collections, butterfly gardens, perennial borders.
Comments: Coreopsis is known to attract Little Metalmark, Aaron's Skipper, Arogos Skipper, Poweshiek Skipperling, and Southern Dogface butterflies, among others.
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