Common Name: Black Samson Coneflower

Latin Name: Echinacea angustifolia

Height: 2 feet

Duration: Perennial

Bloom Color: Pink

Bloom Time: June - July

Water: Medium-Dry, Dry

Soil: Loam, Clay, Sand

Light Requirement: Full sun

Spreads via: Seed

Host Plant: Silvery Checkerspot and Gorgone Checkerspot. The rare Ottoe Skipper Butterfly: females use the flower heads for oviposition (egg-laying), after which the larvae drop down to feed on surrounding native prairie grasses.

Other pollinators: Long-tongued and short-tongued bees, flies, butterflies, beetles

More information: Other common name is Narrow-leaved Coneflower. More drought tolerant than E. pallida and E. purpurea. Spent seed heads are favored by the American Goldfinch in autumn.