Butterfly Flowers - Starlight Echinacea

(Echinacea purpurea)
We’ve chosen an especially striking cultivar of this long-lasting 2 to 3 foot tall perennial. Starlight’s 3 inch flowers have a pretty skirt of vibrant carmine-rose ray petals held almost horizontally around burnt orange centers. These vigorous blooming plants are sensational focal points of the midsummer garden and butterflies love to visit the flowers regularly. Echinacea has gained wide acceptance as an effective immune system tonic to ease the symptoms of colds and flu.