Like other coneflowers, Cheyenne Spirit requires full sun for the best and biggest prolific blooms. It is drought-tolerant, especially after the first year, and it grows well in a variety of soils.

What: Echinacea “Cheyenne Spirit” An All American Selection Award winner in 2013 that flowers in its first year. Its rainbow of colors is said to remind gardeners of the North American plains.

Black-eyed Susans are famous for their brilliant yellow petals; planted near sunflowers, they'll boost the brightness factor ...

Photo by ALLEN OWINGS There are now coneflowers in lots of colors, like these Cheyenne Spirit Echinacea growing at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station.

Another favorite variety of mine is the All-American Selections Gold Medal winner ‘Cheyenne Spirit Echinacea.' It also won the prestigious European Fleuroselect award.

Cheyenne Spirit, a single-petaled variety is a perfect for pollinator plant for use in cottage-style gardens, whether planted in a perennial bed or used in mass plantings in a landscape border ...

Most healthy individual coneflowers will grow in the garden for 3 to 5 years. Hopefully 'Cheyenne Spirit' will come back from seed making them a long lasting plant in the mixed border.

On display are fiery orange Cheyenne spirit coneflowers, PowWow White coneflowers, and eastern purple coneflowers, all crowded so closely together that the lawn has practically vanished.

A sweat bee collects pollen from an echinacea hybrida cheyenne spirit coneflower at The Arboretum, State Botanical Garden of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., Monday, July 1, 2019.

A sweat bee collects pollen from an echinacea hybrida cheyenne spirit coneflower at The Arboretum, State Botanical Garden of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., Monday, July 1, 2019.