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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinacea simulata   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea simulata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Echinacea simulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic revision of Echinacea (Binns, Baum & Arnason, 2002)

Echinacea pallida var. simulata

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Echinacea pallida

 

COMMON NAME:
Prairie Purple Coneflower, Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower, Glade Coneflower


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image of Echinacea simulata, Prairie Purple Coneflower, Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower, Glade Coneflower

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_e_simulata_11

May        

image of Echinacea simulata, Prairie Purple Coneflower, Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower, Glade Coneflower

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_e_simulata_19

May        

image of Echinacea simulata, Prairie Purple Coneflower, Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower, Glade Coneflower

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_echinacea_simulata_2

May        

image of Echinacea simulata, Prairie Purple Coneflower, Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower, Glade Coneflower

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_e_simulata_wavyleaf12

June        

Ray flowers 13-21, narrow, drooping. Disc purplish, conic. Pollen yellow, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Echinacea simulata, Prairie Purple Coneflower, Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower, Glade Coneflower

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_e_simulata_wavyleaf15

June        

Work is needed to disentangle the relative distributions of E. pallida & simulata in our area, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinacea simulata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea simulata   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Echinacea simulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic revision of Echinacea (Binns, Baum & Arnason, 2002)
Echinacea pallida var. simulata

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Echinacea pallida

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3632

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Prairies, dry open woodlands, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare in GA (as a native), waifs in NC (where introduced)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Summer
Rays: Pink/ Purplish
Disc: Purplish (fresh pollen pale to bright yellow)
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers neuter

FRUIT:
Summer
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!



 


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