How to Use coneflower in a Sentence

coneflower

noun

• Soon it would be filled with coneflower and switchgrass.
  — Sam Roe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2020
• The coneflower is superb — its black seed heads haunt the garden in autumn and winter — but pick the right one.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
• The sturdier parts of a plant, such as the woody trunk and branches of a tree, the roots of an aster or coneflower, or the underground bulbs of tulips, wait out the winter.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2021
• Luckily, deer turn their noses up at coneflower—the spiny center is a turn-off.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 May 2024
• Goldfinches feed on the seed heads of my coneflowers, so cutting them back or deadheading removes this food source for the birds.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• Butterflies seek out the coneflower as a nectar source, and goldfinches and other seed eaters harvest the seeds.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• Right now above my coneflowers, bee balm, and black-eyed Susans, a parade of bees, butterflies, and wasps are buzzing and flying among the flower heads.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 25 July 2023
• Another way to achieve coneflower longevity is to allow plants to self-seed.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• But here, Trisha Snider captured a wren grasping onto gray-head coneflowers like stilts, its beak open in song.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Her garden includes black-eyed Susans, coneflowers, phlox and three types of milkweed.
  — Rachel K. Hindery, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• Indeed, a few bees were buzzing around coneflowers, calamintha and echinacea plants as the gardens were dedicated.
  — Mark Lawton, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• For late fall and into the winter add coneflower, mint marigold, fall aster, calendula, dianthus and alyssum.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2018
• And then there are the perennials: ferns, bee balm, coneflowers, hibiscus, black-eyed Susans.
  — Shauna Steigerwald, Cincinnati.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• Dakota skipper butterflies used to flutter above the tall grasses of the Hole-in-the-Mountain Prairie in abundance, drinking from the many yellow coneflowers.
  — Molly Korzenowski, Twin Cities, 6 July 2019
• Fun fact: Echinacea isn't the only flowering plant known as coneflower.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 18 Jan. 2023
• The garden of milkweed, coneflowers and other wildflowers has to be weeded and watered.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2018
• The coneflower can be used as a component in any sunny border, as an accent, or massed with other perennials as well as shrubs.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• Whichever one chooses, coneflower is easily grown in a wide range of soil types, including clay.
  — Karen Dardick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 May 2017
• The barn stands beyond a bed of sun-loving false sunflowers, yellow and pink coneflowers, rudbeckias, and zinnias.
  — Owen Holmes, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
• Or go for one of the various coneflowers (rudbeckias) that stage a major show in autumn with different spins on the black-eyed Susan’s motif.
  — Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• Most folks probably don’t think too much about where those vibrant dahlias, perky coneflowers or fragrant lilies in their bouquets came from, but a group of local flower farmers hope to change that.
  — Hailey Closson, Baltimore Sun, 22 Aug. 2023
• Adding clumps of pollen-rich blooms (think daisy-like coneflowers, sunflowers, asters) to a vegetable mix enhances pollination and boosts harvests.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• Some perennials, such a coneflower and yarrow, revel in bright sun from morning until night while others, such as astilbe and old-fashioned bleeding heart, do best in afternoon shade.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020
• There were white roses and pink astilbe, blue bachelor buttons and red coneflowers, white lysimachia and purple limonium.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 22 July 2019
• Butterflies and hummingbirds love coneflower blossoms, and then winter birds such as our trim Oregon juncos feast on their seeds in winter.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 5 July 2017
• There are perennials – like ornamental grasses, coneflower, Joe-Pye weed, sedum and black-eyed Susan – that provide birds with much-need seeds and insects with places to spend the winter.
  — oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2020
• Echinacea Also known as coneflowers, these are used for cold prevention, infections and wound healing.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 15 July 2023
• The bloom was always brief, though, only lasting two weeks before making way for the next rounds of flowers – iris, yarrow, honeysuckle, coneflower – each tossing its own scent into the bouquet of summer.
  — Lily Stewart, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024
• American goldfinches, who love a good meal of coneflower seeds, resoundingly agree.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• While keeping non-native plants in the garden intact, the group added such native plants as clasping coneflowers, Texas red star hibiscus, blue-eyed grass and Louisiana irises.
  — Kendra Parks, NOLA.com, 24 May 2018

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024