Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench

ASTERACEAE

- Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench

Nomencl. ref.: Methodus: 591 (1794)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Eastern purple coneflower

English name: eastern purple-coneflower

English name: purple-coneflower

French name: echinacée pourpre

Italian name: Echinacea purpurea

German name: roter Scheinsonnenhut

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Brauneria purpurea (L.) Britton
= Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench var. arkansana Steyerm.
= Rudbeckia purpurea L.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench var. arkansana Steyerm.
2) Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench var. laevigata (C.L. Boynt. & Beadle) Cronquist

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Echinacea
Species:

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Echinacea purpurea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Echinacea purpurea
Habit at Kula Ace Hardware and Nursery, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Echinacea purpurea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Toscolano Maderno, Giardino Botanico Sperimentale , BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Echinacea purpurea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Echinacea purpurea
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Echinacea purpurea
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 475.

Echinacea purpurea
Leaves at Kula Ace Hardware and Nursery, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Echinacea purpurea
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Echinacea purpurea
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Echinacea purpurea
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Echinacea purpurea
Habit at Lowes Garden Center Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Echinacea purpurea
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Echinacea purpurea
Leaves at Walmart Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Echinacea purpurea
Habit at Home Depot Nursery Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Echinacea purpurea
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV), CAN (ON)

Distributional map for Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench
Map for Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Echinocactus asterias Zucc. [201]
2) Echinocactus bicolor Galeotti ex N.E. Pfeiffer [88]
3) Echinocactus bicolor Galeotti ex N.E. Pfeiffer var. schottii Engelm. [91]
4) Echinocactus conoideus (DC.) Poselg. [145]
5) Echinocactus intertextus Engelm. [94]
6) Echinocactus johnsonii Parry ex Engelm. var. lutescens Parish [148]
7) Echinocactus polycephalus Engelm. & Bigelow ssp. xeranthemoides (J.M. Coult.) N.P. Taylor [92]
8) Echinocactus warnockii (L.D. Benson) D. Weniger, nom. nud. [146]
9) Echinocereus albispinus Lahman [153]
10) Echinocereus blanckii (Poselg.) hort. ex Palmer var. angusticeps (Clover) L.D. Benson [159]

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