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Echinacea purpurea |
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Purple Coneflower, Hedge Coneflower, Slack
Sampson, Purple Echinacea, Purple Rudbeckia |
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Eastern United States |
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Erect plant |
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2-4 feet by 2 feet wide |
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Heads solitary on stout terminal peduncles, rays
purple, sometimes white, spreading or drooping
disk flowers, brown cone. |
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Alternate, lower leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate, coarsely toothed, long-petioled, upper stem
leaves narrower, nearly entire, sessile. Leaves are
4-8 inches long and dark green. |
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- 'Abendsonne' - Used by
Alan Bloom
to produce seedlings from which he chose'Robert Bloom'.
- 'Alba' - Cream-white flowers, seed grown selection.
- 'Bressingham Hybrids' - light rose to red
flowers.
- 'Bright Star' - Bright rose-red, 2-3 inches, daisy-like flowers
with maroon centers, plants 2-3 feet tall
- 'Crimson Star' - Crimson-red flowers, 24-30 inches tall.
- 'Robert Bloom' - Vigorous. free-branching plant,
carmine-purple flowers with orange centers, plants are
2-3 feet tall.
- 'Magnus' - Rosy-purple flowers with broad, non-drooping
petals.
- 'The King' - Coral-crimson flowers with
maroon or brown centers. Now been superseded by better cultivars like 'Robert Bloom'.
- 'White Lustre' - Coarse leaves and dull white rays, leaves
tend to reflex, prolific bloomer.
- 'White Swan' - White flowers, 2-3 feet tall.
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Echinacea is
derived from a Greek term for hedgehog, which
apparently refers to the scales of the
receptacles, which are prickly. |
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