Background Research: Echinacea

Echinacea is native from Florida to NE Texas to Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa. The beautiful pink and purple flower generally grows in kind of dry areas, like in sands, prairies, open woods, clay, loam, limestone, and thickets. Echinacea flowers now grow all over the United States, ranging from New York to Arkansas, and have also sprouted up in southern Canada in Ontario and Quebec.

Photo of Echinacea flower From Missouri Botanical Garden