Echinacea purpurea
Purple Cone Flower, Garden Coreopsis, Eastern Purple Coneflower, Purple Coneflower, Purple-coneflower, Broad-leaved Purple Coneflower, Eastern Purple-coneflower, Purple Cone-flower, Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea
Description
A perennial ornamental herbaceous plant used in landscaping to give distinctive character to flowerbeds or borders as well as outdoor planters and tubs, also in mixed arrangements with other species. In recent years,Echinacea purpurea has become increasingly popular due to the spontaneous and refined effect of its long stems with the distinctive flower head inflorescences at the top with a prominent central disc and a petal-bearing ray with a wide range of colours depending on the variety grown. Rustic, it tolerates summer heat and winter cold, expressing its best vegetative vigour with bright exposures in soil free of waterlogging.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Echinacea
- Species
- Echinacea purpurea
Synonyms (16)
- Brauneria purpurea
- Echinacea intermedia
- Echinacea serotina
- Helichroa alba
- Helichroa amoena
- Helichroa crocea
- Helichroa elatior
- Helichroa fusca
- Helichroa fuscata
- Helichroa linnaeana
- Helichroa purpurea
- Helichroa uniflora
- Rudbeckia aspera
- Rudbeckia hispida
- Rudbeckia purpurea
- Rudbeckia serotina
