Plant Calculator
Enter the approximate length and width of the area you will be planting and click 'Calculate' to determine how many Echinacea 'Mango Meadowbrite™' you will need.
*Correct and successful spacing is complex and depends on project conditions.
Echinacea 'Mango Meadowbrite™'
Coneflower
- Mango-yellow ray petals, a bright golden-orange cone
- The strongest fragrance of any coneflower
- Deep green, semi-glossy, lance-shaped leaves
- Category: Perennials
- Patent: 'CBG Cone 3' PP16636
- Hardiness Zone: 4-9
- Height: 30-36 in
- Spread: 36 in
Currently Unavailable
Substitutions available for Echinacea 'Mango Meadowbrite™'
Critter Resistance
| • | Deer Resistant |
Exposure
| • | Full Sun |
Attributes
| • | Blooms all Season |
| • | Border or Bed |
| • | Container |
| • | Cut Flower/Foliage |
| • | Dried Flower/Foliage |
| • | Drought Tolerant |
| • | Fast Growing |
| • | Fragrant |
| • | Low Maintenance |
| • | Mass Planting |
Season of Interest (Flowering)
| • | Summer |
Growing & Maintenance Tips for Echinacea 'Mango Meadowbrite™'
Coneflowers like it sunny and hot. Though they will tolerate light shade, fewer flowers will be produced and the plants will be weakened. Light, loamy soils are best but coneflowers will grow in any well-drained soil. Once established, they are quite drought tolerant. If properly cared for, they will form attractive colonies and will live for many years.
General Growing Tips for Echinacea purperea
Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Best in full sun. An adaptable plant that is tolerant of drought, heat, humidity and poor soil. Divide clumps when they become overcrowded (about every 4 years).
Learn More about Echinacea purperea (Coneflower)
Echinacea purpurea, commonly called purple coneflower, is a coarse, rough-hairy, herbaceous perennial that is native to moist prairies, meadows and open woods of the central to southeastern United States.
View All Echinacea purpereaInteresting Notes about Echinacea purperea
Genus name of Echinacea comes from the Greek word echinos meaning hedgehog or sea-urchin in reference to the spiny center cone found on most flowers in the genus.