Why are We Planting This?
Ecological Gifts
Loved by pollinators and serves as a host plant (a type of plant critical to the lifecycle of a specific species). Also resistant to the large herd of deer that frequent our yard.
Medicinal Gifts
Purple coneflower has a rich medicinal history with tribes throughout North America. Popularization of this genus in Western herbal medicine has led to over-harvesting. As we ever so slowly learn more about home herbalism, it’s a plant we’d like to get to know better and source for ourselves.
Read more about the ethnobotany of Purple Coneflower and its history of medicinal uses at the fully-referenced Plants for a Future and the Native American Ethnobotany Database.