The advent of summer is celebrated by nature with full bloomed purple cone flowers. Though these flowers are garden flowers but they spread their hues even beyond their boundary. A purple cone flower (Echinacea angustifolia) mainly grows on grassland and is found over a vast stretch from Saskatchewan to Texas.

When other pink flowers start to fall, a purple cone flower starts blooming thereby giving a colorful appearance to nature in summer. These flowers can grow in pot as well as in your garden soil. However, after every blooming season, the plant of a purple cone flower should be properly trimmed off the dry leaves and branches. The root of the purple cone flower plant, after its boom in the third or fourth year is used for medicinal purposes.

Purple cone flower is cultivated in a large scale, for these medicinal facilities. The whole plant is used; the upper part as well as the underground part is utilized for making medicines. These special purple cone flower plants, used for making medicinal drugs, are called Echinacea purpurea. There are at least nine species of purple cone flower; each of them having some medicinal benefits.

Purple cone flower prefers light shade and not direct sunlight. These plants grow well in humid climate and needs to be drained out regularly. If water stores in the pot of a purple cone flower plant, this would be harmful for the plant and the second blooms may get smaller in size. For their beautiful appearance, these flowers are widely used for preparing wreaths and bouquets. You can even match the purple cone flower with flowers of other color to make your bouquet get an added touch of beauty. Keep visiting Dgreetings.com to know all about purple flowers.