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Echinacea Salsa Red ~ Salsa Red Cone Flower

Echinacea Salsa Red starts producing spectacular fragrant fiery red flowers in the late Spring through much of the Summer. Echinacea Salsa Red grows 24" tall and makes a slowly expanding clump each year. Plants do best in regularly irrigated beds and with frequent removal of the dead flowers. Plant in full sun to light shade. Echinacea Salsa Red is a great choice for attracting butterflies to your garden. The White Checkered Skipper, Painted Lady, California Common Ringlet, Mormon Metalmark, Northern White Skipper, Great Purple Hairstreak, and Gray Hairstreak butterflies will use Echinacea Salsa Red as a nectar resource. These mid-west native plants are Winter hardy to below 0° F.

Echinacea Salsa Red, Salsa Red Cone Flower

Red flowers of Echinacea Salsa Red - Salsa Red Cone Flower. High resolution photos are part of our garden image collection.

Plants from the genus Echinacea featured on this site:
Echinacea Cheyenne Spirit
Echinacea purpurea
Echinacea Salsa Red
Echinacea Sunset Echinacea White Swan