Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Asteraceae
Echinacea laevigata

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Asteraceae
Echinacea laevigata

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Asteraceae
179-62-002
Echinacea laevigata

Common Name:
Smooth Purple Coneflower, Smooth Coneflower

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in open woodlands & glades over mafic or calcareous rocks, such as diabase, limestone, & dolomite, rarely in oak-pine savannas of upper Coastal Plain over circumneutral clay sediments, per Weakley's Flora



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Leaves:
Simple
Alternate basal & cauline

Flower:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Pink ... Disc: Purple

Fruit:
Spring/Summer
Nutlet

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p148
All About SC Wildflowers p146
Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p206
Wildflowers of the Eastern US p122




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JK Marlow      jkm0406j_37


June
Oconee County SC

 

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JK Marlow      jkm0406k_07


June
Oconee County SC

 

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June
Oconee County SC

 

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JK Marlow      jkm0506j_05


June
Oconee County SC

 

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JK Marlow      jkm0506j_08


June
Oconee County SC

 

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JK Marlow      s050716_a


July
Oconee County SC

 

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JK Marlow      jkm0410p_12


October
Oconee County SC

 

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Patrick D. McMillan      pdmelaevigata_br5


Month Unknown

Acknowledgments to Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review

 

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