Summary ⁶

Echinacea purpurea (eastern purple coneflower or purple coneflower) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Echinacea of the family Asteraceae. Its cone-shaped flowering heads are usually, but not always, purple in the wild. It is native to eastern North America and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern, southeastern and midwest United States.

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• Jepson eFlora
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
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• OregonFlora.org
• SEINet Symbiota portals
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• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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