2799

Forb
Perennial

Native: Tennessee
Documented growing wild in - - -

Rare, endemic to the Nashville Basin of c. TN

Look for it in calcareous glades, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal & low alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: Pink
Disc: Purplish (with yellow pollen)
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers neuter
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p124
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p291
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p340

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Echinacea tennesseensis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea tennesseensis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Echinacea angustifolia var. tennesseensis