Echinacea purpurea
Species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Purple coneflower" redirects here. This common name is sometimes used for other purple flowered plants in the genus Echinacea.
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.
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Echinacea purpurea | |
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At a prairie preserve in southwest Arkansas | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Echinacea |
Species: | E. purpurea |
Binomial name | |
Echinacea purpurea | |
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