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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinacea purpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Eastern Purple Coneflower at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea purpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Echinacea purpurea
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-62-001:
Echinacea purpurea FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Echinacea purpurea var. purpurea
COMMON NAME:
Eastern Purple Coneflower
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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969 mpa_page_113
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ecpu_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_e_purpurea_0943
June Transylvania County NC
In cultivation
Disc florets bisexual and fertile; ray florets neuter, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm0407i_36
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Flowers have a dome-shaped disk about 1" across, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm0407j_03
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_purpurea_15
July
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_purpurea_2
July
Rays purplish, drooping, to 3" long. Disk flowers orange, disk to 1.25" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm0309c_20
September Greenville County SC
In cultivation
Leaves mostly hairy, stalked, broadly lance-shaped, toothed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm0309c_21
September Greenville County SC
In cultivation
Stems 5-12dm tall and hirsute. Leaves scabrous, at least above, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinacea purpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea purpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Echinacea purpurea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-62-001:
Echinacea purpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Echinacea purpurea var. purpurea
502
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Open woodlands, roadsides, some of the occurrences persistent or spread from cultivation, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal
Leaves have petioles.
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: Pink
Disc: Purplish-orange
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers neuter
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p145
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p150
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p124
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p382
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p129
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p385
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p122
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p271
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p073
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p290
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p339
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p206
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