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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinacea pallida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Pale Purple Coneflower at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea pallida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Echinacea pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic revision of Echinacea (Binns, Baum & Arnason, 2002)
Echinacea pallida var. pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-62-003:
Echinacea pallida FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Echinacea pallida
COMMON NAME:
Pale Purple Coneflower
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ecpa_001_lvd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_echinacea_pallida2
June Otoe County NE
Work is needed to disentangle the relative distributions of E. pallida & simulata in our area, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_echinacea_pallida2b
June Otoe County NE
Herbage sparsely to densely hairy (hairs spreading). Stems green to purplish, per Flora of North America.
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_echinacea_pallida3
June Otoe County NE
Ray laminae reflexed. Discs conic to hemispheric (pollen usually white), per Flora of North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinacea pallida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea pallida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Echinacea pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A taxonomic revision of Echinacea (Binns, Baum & Arnason, 2002)
Echinacea pallida var. pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-62-003:
Echinacea pallida
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Echinacea pallida
500
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Dry prairies, open dry woodlands, roadsides (introduced eastwards in our area), per Weakley's Flora
Probably native to North Carolina & 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
Rays: Pink/ Purplish
Disc: Purplish (fresh pollen white)
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers neuter
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p146
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p150
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p124
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p127
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p122
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p073
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p289
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p338
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p206
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