Is Pale Purple Coneflower deer resistant?
Echinacea pallida
Light browsing at worst; rarely ruined.
Not listed by Rutgers NJAES. Rated deer-resistant by El Paso County CSU Extension, whose list is a single category, mapped conservatively to Seldom Severely Damaged.
About Pale Purple Coneflower
The rays hang straight down from a big spiny cone, narrow and in a pink so pale it can read as white, over stout stems and coarse-haired leaves that deer tend to walk past. Do not divide it. Splitting a clump is the ordinary way to increase a perennial and the reliable way to ruin this one: it comes back as a mass of thin stems carrying almost no flowers, and the next season does not put it right. Raise it from seed instead. Sow in autumn, or give the seed a spell of moist cold and sow in spring, and move the plants while they are young — they transplant easily at that stage. Full sun, but no need to starve it. It will take moist ground or dry, acid or lime, and it does better where there is something in the soil, so the gravel treatment is wrong here. Cut the old stems down in early spring.
Tolerances and uses
- Evergreen
Similar to Pale Purple Coneflower
Other perennials with the same deer rating.
- African LilyAgapanthus sp.Zones 8–11, genus rangeSeldom damaged
- AsparagusAsparagus officinalisZones 2–9Seldom damaged
- AsterAster sp.Zones 3–8, genus rangeSeldom damaged
- AstilbeAstilbe x arendsiiZones 3–8Seldom damaged
- Baby's BreathGypsophila sp.Zones 3–9, genus rangeSeldom damaged
- BastardsageEriogonum wrightiiZones 5–10Seldom damaged
Where Pale Purple Coneflower grows
Hardy across most of these 51 states on zone range alone. Mountain and coastal areas sit outside the ranges used here, so check your own zone before ordering.
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- New Yorknative
- Connecticutnative
- Massachusettsnative
- Virginianative
- Marylandnative
- Michigannative
- Wisconsinnative
- Ohio
- Indiananative
- Illinoisnative
- Minnesota
- Missourinative
- North Carolinanative
- Tennesseenative
- Georgianative
- Texasnative
- Colorado
- California
- Oregon
- Washington
- New Hampshire
- Vermont
- Mainenative
- Rhode Island
- Delaware
- West Virginia
- Kentucky
- South Carolinanative
- Florida
- Alabamanative
- Mississippi
- Louisiananative
- Arkansasnative
- Oklahomanative
- Kansasnative
- Nebraskanative
- Iowanative
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Montana
- Wyoming
- Idaho
- Utah
- Nevada
- Arizona
- New Mexico
- Alaska
- District of Columbia
- Hawaii
Highlighted states are within its native range according to the USDA PLANTS database, where it is native to 23 US states in total.
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Common questions about Pale Purple Coneflower
- Is Pale Purple Coneflower deer resistant?
- Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida) is rated Seldom Severely Damaged on the Rutgers NJAES four-tier scale. Light browsing at worst; rarely ruined.
- What hardiness zones does Pale Purple Coneflower grow in?
- Pale Purple Coneflower is hardy in USDA zones 3 to 10. Outside that range it will either not survive winter or will struggle with summer heat.
- Does Pale Purple Coneflower grow in shade?
- No. Pale Purple Coneflower wants full sun and will grow thin and flop in shade.
- How big does Pale Purple Coneflower get?
- Mature height is roughly 24–24 in. Growth rate is moderate.