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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Plant Height: 36-48 in.
Plant Spread: 24-36 inches wide
Leaves: Other: Herbaceous
Fruit: Edible to birds
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Other: Needs Deadheading, Repeat Bloomer.
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Other: Deadhead faded flowers to ensure more flowering throughout the season.
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Uses: Medicinal Herb
Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: If sowing indoors.
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Can handle transplanting
Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Various insects
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
Awards and Recognitions: Other: 2009 Great Plant Picks award winner
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Coneflower
  • White Coneflower

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Location: Carson City, NV
Date: 2019-07-14
#polliNATION #pollinator #butterfly
Photo by Lucichar
Photo by Snapshot
Location: local garden centre
Date: 2017-07-30
Photo by SoCalGardenNut

Date: 2013-07-18
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C. 
Date: 2016-07-15
/ 5:59 pm. / Pure white petals and long lasting.
Location: all photos from my garden
Date: 2008-03-13
Location: The Critter Flower Bed in Smithfield, KY
Date: 2016-07-20
an overhead view of three stages of bloom- bud, new bloomer, bloo

Date: 2012-07-05
Location: Peterborough, ON, Canada
Date: 2015-07-08
Location: Cincinnati, Oh
Date: July 2011
White Swan with purple coneflower and rudbeckia
Location: my garden
Date: 2016-06-03
Location: Little garden of Big Dreams, Dayton KY

Date: 2014-08-12

Courtesy Outsidepride
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2023-07-26
Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan') clump
Location: RavenCroft Garden
Date: 2012-07-06
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-06-30
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2006-07-02
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2005-07-07
#Pollination
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: July 7, 2005
Photo by sedumzz
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date: 2015-07-30
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Sep 11, 2009
Location: My Garden
Date: 2013-08-03
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (Outdoors)
Location: Indiana  Zone 5
Date: 2013-03-19
Location: RavenCroft Garden
Date: 2012-07-06
Location: RavenCroft Garden
Date: 2012-07-06
Location: Fairfax, VA
Photo by Maridell

Date: 2014-08-12
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada - near Lake Ontario, zone 6a
Date: 2012-June

Date: 2012-07-05

Date: 2014-07-12
Location: Eagle Bay, New York
Date: 2022-08-03
Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan'
Location: Garland (Dallas), TX
Date: November 2011
Great through the fall, but did not reappear in spring/summer.  R
Location: Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2014-08-04
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2020-08-22
Location: Washington
Date: 2016-07-11
Location: Cincinnati, Oh
Date: July 2011
White Swan in the landscape

Image Courtesy of Bloomin Designs Nursery Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by vic

Image Courtesy of Bloomin Designs Nursery Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2013-06-21
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2008-07-01
some white flowers with the regular purple
Photo by sedumzz
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: Mid Summer
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: my zone 5 garden
Date: 2016-07-05
Location: my zone 5 garden
Date: 2016-07-07
I have trouble growing daisies, so this is the nest best thing.

Date: 2016-06-30
Brownstown Pennsylvania
Photo by sedumzz

Date: 2014-08-12

Date: 2014-07-20
Location: Heathcote Ontario Canada
Date: 1995   June-July
Echinacea purpurea'White Swan'   3 stages of  blooms
Photo by sedumzz
Location: RHS Hyde Hall, Essex.UK.
Date: 2022-07-25

Date: 2013-09-12
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2018-06-02
White Swan Coneflower 003
Location: Little garden of Big Dreams, Dayton KY
Photo by sedumzz

Date: 2022-06-05

Photo courtesy of: Tom Potterfield
Photo by sedumzz
Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2012-06-22
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2015-07-29
Photo by sedumzz
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (Outdoors)
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2020-07-25
Photo by Cookies4kids

1 years worth of growth
Location: My Garden
Date: 2013-08-03
Location: IL
Date: 2012-06-23

Date: 2012-06-30

Date: 2012-06-30
Photo by sedumzz
Location: Fairfax, VA | April, 2023
Date: 2023-04-23
Photo by sedumzz

Courtesy of Diane's Flower Seeds
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2015-02-20

Date: 2012-07-05

Date: 2012-07-05

Date: 2014-07-20
Photo by sedumzz
Photo by sedumzz
Photo by sedumzz
Location: Pembroke, GA
Date: 2014-01-23
Photo courtesy of Santa Rosa Gardens. Used with permission.
Location: Fairfax, VA | July, 2022
Date: 2022-07-15

Photo courtesy of: Tom Potterfield
Photo by sedumzz
Photo by sedumzz
Photo by sedumzz

Courtesy Gardens in the Wood of Grassy Creek
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2020-01-12
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2015-07-29

Date: 2013-09-12
Location: Fairfax, VA | July, 2022
Date: 2022-07-15
Location: Fairfax, VA | July, 2022
Date: 2022-07-15

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Comments:
  • Posted by imabirdnut (North Texas - Zone 7b) on Sep 7, 2012 9:11 PM concerning plant:
    I have been growing 'White Swan' for 3 years from seeds I harvest from my own plants & they have come true from seed every time!
  • Posted by tabbycat (Youngsville, LA - Zone 9b) on Jul 19, 2018 11:05 AM concerning plant:
    I have tried these from seeds I've gotten in seed trades for several years and they never bloom true white. In my research I found that the traders all grew other varieties close by, so cross pollination may be the reason. I will have to buy a plant and then test to see whether it comes true from seed growing in my mixed environment. I think root divisions are my best way of propagating this pretty color. I'm in south Louisiana and all echinaceas do well here and are a mainstay in attracting butterflies to my yard.
Plant Events from our members
piksihk On March 23, 2020 Seeds sown
2015 old seeds
lovesblooms On January 15, 2017 Seeds sown
w/s
lovesblooms On March 14, 2016 Seeds germinated
lovesblooms On March 5, 2016 Seeds sown
indoors
christine2 On May 1, 2008 Obtained plant
MrsBinWY On June 20, 2018 Transplanted
On 6-20-2018, planted 6 in the alley.
MrsBinWY On April 14, 2018 Seeds germinated
1 (awfully slow germination; room might have been too cold; also didn't cover the 6-pack)
MrsBinWY On March 25, 2018 Seeds sown
6x2 2017G seeds from white volunteer in 6-pack; room temp
AtaMaj On March 2, 2020 Obtained plant
planted 2 tubers in the echinacea meadow
paleohunter On April 1, 2021 Transplanted
paleohunter On August 29, 2020 Seeds sown
dnrevel On June 20, 2022 Transplanted
Transplanted into a large, white pot before traveling. In late July the plants are doing well but are still small. It may need several years to get to full size, like Green Twister.
dnrevel On January 23, 2022 Seeds sown
Winter Sowed seeds in Tote - Red Cup containers. Seed from MIgardener.
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