Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City, USA

Common name: Coneflower

Family: Asteraceae (Aster Family)

Distribution: North America

IUCN Red list: Not evaluated

Hardiness: 4a

Life form: Perennial plant

Comments: ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ is a well-branched, sturdy coneflower that won the 2013 AAS (All-America Selections®) award and Europe's FleuroSelect Gold Medal award for garden performance. It flowers the first year in a wide range of bloom colors, including purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, cream or white ray flowers with a brown cone. This coneflower will bloom from June to August with some sporadic later bloom. It makes a good fresh cut or dried flower. Seedheads are attractive to birds.