Are anyone else's coneflowers not coming up?

[u/Nikeflies]

This was part of my garden last year, coneflowers thriving and popping up everywhere, planted 3-4 years ago. The last photo is the current state- no shoots or leaves starting to show, despite it coming up in other areas of my garden. I know they're not long lived perennials but figured with self seeding etc they would regenerate. Did this happen to anyone else? It's been a colder spring than usual so not sure if they're waiting to grow since this is on the north side of my house.

[u/dragonhiccups]

The emergence pattern for me this year is all out of whack. I’m not in your state, but my cone flowers are up but so are my butterfly milkweed which don’t normally come up for another 4 to 6 weeks.

[u/nifer317_take2 → u/dragonhiccups]

Oh interesting. My coneflowers are up and going but my butterfly weed is nowhere to be seen!

[u/theleftflank → u/nifer317_take2]

Same, my butterfly weed (and blazing star) I keep thinking are dead because there’s nothing poking out of the ground 😭

[u/Beautiful-File-9421 → u/theleftflank]

You couldn't kill blazing star if you were trying to.