Purple Coneflower is a wildflower with stout stems that are two to four feet tall. The purple flower heads are three to five inches wide with 14 to 20 droopy petals around a cone-shaped, spiny, orange center. The leaves are coarse-haired, narrow, and lance-shaped, up to five inches wide by eight inches long. Purple Coneflowers grow in savannahs, open woodlands, prairies, and meadows, in moist to dry, rich soils with good drainage. (July)