General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 36 inches
Plant Spread: 18 inches
Leaves: Other: Herbaceous
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Pink
Other: Rose
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Other: Cut back faded flowers to ensure more flowering throughout the season.
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Uses: Provides winter interest
Cut Flower
Dried Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Humidity tolerant
Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: If sowing indoors.
Needs specific temperature
Days to germinate: 10 to 21
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Can handle transplanting
Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Other: Divide in early spring
Pollinators: Various insects
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM
Other: 1998 PPA Perennial Plant of the Year; 2002 Oklahoma Proven! plant selection; 2009 Great Plant Picks award winner
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Purple Coneflower
  • Eastern Purple Coneflower
  • Coneflower

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Location: central Illinois
Date: summer
Red Admiral Convention
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2017-09-02
#pollination    Great Speckled Fritillary
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2015-07-13
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2018-07-20
#pollination
Location: Vermont
Date: 2015-08-15
Location: Vermont
Date: 2015-08-15
Location: central Illinois
Date: 7-27-15
#pollination   Red Admiral
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2013-10-24
Location: central Illinois
Date: summer
Bee But
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2007-09-18
#pollination - Hairsteak BF
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2021-8-11
Echinacea purpurea Magnus
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2009-07-19
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2022-08-16
Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus')
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2014-07-04
#pollination   Viceroy
Location: central Illinois
Date: 6-24-2010
#pollination
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date: 2015-08-17
Location: Hood, Alabama 
Date: 2023-04-21
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2009-07-05
#pollination    (bee in flight, Monarch thereon)
Location: Mid-Missouri, USA
Date: 2020-08-11
The flower is still developing
Location: southeast alabamA
Date: 2015-06-25
Magnus
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2008-07-12
Butterflies adore
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-06-26
#Pollination
Location: Sangamon Co. Il.
Date: 2019-06-24
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-08-16
Goldfinch
Location: My garden in Southeast Virginia, Zone 8
Date: JULY
Entire plant
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-07-10
#Pollination
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-07-10
#Pollination
Location: Maryland
Date: 2015-07-03
Brilliant color in the morning light
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-08-05
Photo by jmorth
Location: Vermont
Date: 2014-05-01
Location: Southern Maine
Date: 2020-07-15
Note flower variability, attracts bees and butterflies.

Image Courtesy of Bloomin Designs Nursery Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: southeast alabama
Date: 2015-06-25
Magnus bloom
Location: My Garden
Date: 2012-09-13
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2009-07-09
Quilled spoon mutation (or sport) in stand of Magnus
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-06-30
#pollination
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2022-08-03
Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus')
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: Oct. 22, 2006
Location: central Illinois
Date: 6-19-11
#pollination
Location: Grapevine, Texas USA
Photo by DancingGenes
Photo by petalsnsepals
Location: Southern Maine
Date: 2020-07-18
Sold with Magnus tag (Vanburkum Nursery) but has white and shuttl
Photo by foraygardengirl
Photo by plantcollector
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2013-10-24
Location: Grapevine, Texas USA
Date: April 29, 2020
Grown from seed Spring 2019
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-07-16
w/ Swallowtail
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C. 
Date: 2017-08-15
 - Same two blooms in August.
Location: My garden in Southeast Virginia, Zone 8
Date: JUNE
Seedling or Young Plant
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: June 30, 2006
#Pollination
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-06-26
#pollination
Location: My Garden, Washington State
Date: 8/7/17
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-06-30
#pollination
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022
Date: 2022-06-03
Location: West border
Date: August
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2009-07-13
My yard, zone 6

Credit florum
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Nov 11, 2009
Location: North Branch, MN
Date: 2017-07-14
Photo by plantcollector

Courtesy American Daylily and Perennials
  • Uploaded by vic
Photo by plantcollector
Location: central Illinois
Date: 7-4-14
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-02-22
Location: Grapevine, Texas USA
Date: April 29, 2020
Grown from seed Spring 2019
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C. 
Date: 2017-07-14
 - The tallest of my Echinaceas. 12:21 pm.
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C. 
Date: 2017-07-30
 - Two July blooms.
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2014-07-07
Location: southeast alabama
Date: 2015-06-25
Magnus!
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-07-02
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: June 26, 2006
#Pollination
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-07-07
#Pollination
Location: Hood, Alabama 
Date: 2023-06-30
Location: My garden in Southeast Virginia
Date: 2014-06-20
Nice big lavender bloom on this one.
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-10-20
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2017-10-26
Seed pods kind of look like flowers themselves
Location: Garden City, MI
Date: 2012-07-16
Mom's yard, zone 6

Date: 2018-05-31
Location: Maryland
Date: 2015-06-26
Blossom just opened
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2014-05-10
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-06-26
#Pollination
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2013-10-24
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2017-08-19
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-06-24
w/ Monarch
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2014-07-07
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2009-07-18
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2014-02-18

Date: Jun 30, 2010 11:17 AM
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-10-22
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-02-22
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-07-07
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-06-24
#Pollination
Location: Pembroke, GA
Date: 2014-01-23
Photo courtesy of Santa Rosa Gardens. Used with permission.
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2013-12-26
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2013-12-26
Seed head dried & ready to spill it's seeds
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2009-07-13
My yard, zone 6
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2009-07-13
My yard, zone 6
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2009-07-13
My yard, zone 6
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2010-06-19
My yard, zone 6
Location: Garden City, MI
Date: 2012-07-16
Mom's yard, zone 6

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Comments:
  • Posted by Marilyn (Kentucky - Zone 6a) on Mar 3, 2017 8:06 PM concerning plant:
    Magnus is one of my favorite coneflowers. I have been growing it, since 1998 when it won the Plant Perennial of the Year award. Always beautiful and reliable year after year. I think if I could have just one coneflower variety to grow, that this would be it. Butterflies love to landing on the cones and with the purple Liatris that is growing with Magnus, it is a colorful butterfly banquet in my garden.
  • Posted by Newyorkrita (North Shore, Long Island, NY ) on Sep 29, 2011 6:17 PM concerning plant:
    Leave the seed heads after they flower instead of cutting back to attract Goldfinches. They love to eat the seeds of coneflowers. Magnus is a proven variety I have had in my garden for many, many years.
  • Posted by Catmint20906 (PNW WA half hour south of Olympia - Zone 8a) on Aug 23, 2014 3:09 PM concerning plant:
    Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus') is a very attractive plant to pollinators and an important source of nectar for many butterfly species. Monarchs, Red Admirals, Sulphurs, Fritillaries, Skippers, Swallowtails, and other butterflies enjoy this plant. In addition, Echinacea purpurea has special value to native bees, particularly bumble and leafcutter bees.

    Birds enjoy the seedheads.
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Feb 5, 2015 11:41 PM concerning plant:
    An attractive plant that's been blooming here for over a dozen years. This cultivar has a commanding presence in the garden. Magnus is a super butterfly magnet, enticing several native butterflies to "drink from its cup." Easy to sow seed in place or transplant clumps to establish a stand. Magnus has a long blooming period culminating in mid-summer. Seed pods furnish seed to goldfinches (and other birds) in the fall.
  • Posted by SCButtercup (Simpsonville SC - Zone 7b) on Aug 24, 2014 5:09 AM concerning plant:
    This is a tall variety of echinacea and looks great next to the equally tall echinacea 'Fragrant Angel' (white) or as a backdrop for echinaceas of the PowWow series, which tend to be pretty short. Magnus comes true to seed, which is another plus because you can expand and fill in your garden economically.
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