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Echinacea pallida
Also called Pale Echinacea, Pale Coneflower, Pale Flower Echinacea, Drooping Coneflower, Pale Purple Cone Flower
Echinacea pallida, the pale purple coneflower, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the family Asteraceae. It is sometimes grown in gardens and used for medicinal purposes. Its native range is the central region of the United States and Ontario, Canada.
It is found in the Mississippi Valley, the southeastern Great Plains, and the region south of Lake Michigan. Most of the known populations are in the region from southern Wisconsin and Iowa south to Louisiana and eastern Texas, with additional reports (many of them likely from introductions) in the Southeastern United States, New England, New York, Michigan, and Ontario.
Blacksamson echinacea · Topeka purple coneflower · Smooth purple coneflower · Bush's purple coneflower · Eastern purple-coneflower · Sanguin purple coneflower · Eastern Purple Coneflower · Wavyleaf purple coneflower · Tennessee purple coneflower · Purple coneflower
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echinacea pallida by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
