Echinacea purpurea

"Purple coneflower" redirects here. This common name is sometimes used for other purple flowered plants in the genus Echinacea.

Echinacea purpurea
At a prairie preserve in southwest Arkansas

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Echinacea
Species:
E. purpurea
Binomial name
Echinacea purpurea
Synonyms[2]
  • Brauneria purpurea (L.) Britton
  • Echinacea intermedia Lindl. ex Paxton
  • Echinacea speciosa (Wender.) Paxton
  • Helichroa purpurea (L.) Raf.
  • Rudbeckia purpurea L.

Echinacea purpurea, the eastern purple coneflower,[3] purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or echinacea, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.[4] It is native to parts of eastern North America[5] and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern, southeastern and midwestern United States as well as in the Canadian Province of Ontario. It is most common in the Ozarks and in the Mississippi/Ohio Valley.[6][7] Its habitats include dry open woods, prairies and barrens.

  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  2. ^ The Plant List, Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference b was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Zimmerman B. "Echinacea: Not always a purple coneflower". Gardening. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference pfaf was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench (eastern purple coneflower)". PLANTS Profile. United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. Retrieved 2007-06-07.
  7. ^ "2014 county distribution map of Echinacea purpurea". The Biota of North America Program.