Echinacea Ruby Star Plant

Large deep purple pink petals and big pincushion like dark bronze cones will attract lots of butterflies.

Echinacea ruby star plant.

Product is out of stock. 1 196 970 rubinstern a selection of our most popular native north american wildflower with larger more vibrantly coloured flowers than the species. Echinacea ruby star ruby star coneflower. Attributes drought tolerant fall color.

The bright purple pink daisy like flowers on sturdy stems make great cut flowers. Award winning echinacea ruby giant boasts huge 5 inches wide 12 cm fragrant blooms with slightly reflexed red purple rays that fade to light purple as they mature. Ruby star forms a tall narrow upright profile in the garden that is perfect for the middle or back of any garden that grows in full sun. Rising high above the leaves to display their bold blooms to attract wildlife.

Flower buds begin to form in early july and by later in the month you ll be enthralled by the big carmine red daisies that emerge. The coneflower ruby star echinacea purpurea ruby star produces large intense carmine red daisy like flowers with a dark bronze pincushion like center cone. Introduced by jelitto who gave us magnus echinacea ruby star is a slightly shorter plant with large flat topped flowers that are a deeper purple pink almost ruby red than most others. This clonal selection from the original rubinstern seed presents a double row of petals held horizontally for maximum impact and effect.

These flowers grow on 40 inch tall stems from late spring through fall. Echinacea purpurea ruby star sku 1822 flower petals are first held horizontally then relax as the flowers age and the cone like centers become more pronounced. Rubinstern ruby star is a german bred cultivar with deeply colored rose red petals that stretch out horizontilly from the center cone. 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.

From a central brown cone the deep carmine pink petals are held flat rather than drooping like the species. A vigorous long bloomer with some of the darkest flowers you ll see on a purple coneflower. Plants are easy to grow tough and heat and drought tolerant once established. Specific epithet means purple.

Plants are easy to grow tough and heat and drought tolerant once established.