Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Echinacea simulata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
NEW! Click to go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Extremely like E. pallida -- two differences are the width of the ray flowers and the color of the pollen. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Some of the more eastern disjunct populations previously considered to be E. pallida are actually E. simulata; additional work is needed to disentangle the relative distributions of these two species in our area. Read more in Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea simulata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A taxonomic revision of Echinacea (Binns, Baum & Arnason, 2002)
Echinacea pallida var. simulata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Echinacea pallida
COMMON NAME:
Prairie Purple Coneflower, Wavyleaf Purple Coneflower, Glade Coneflower
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_simulata_11
May
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_simulata_19
May
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_echinacea_simulata_2
May
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_simulata_wavyleaf12
June
Ray flowers 13-21, narrow, drooping. Disc purplish, conic. Pollen yellow, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_simulata_wavyleaf15
June
Work is needed to disentangle the distributions of E. pallida & simulata, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Echinacea simulata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea simulata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A taxonomic revision of Echinacea (Binns, Baum & Arnason, 2002)
Echinacea pallida var. simulata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Echinacea pallida
3632
Forb
Perennial
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC -
Rare, as well as waif(s)
Habitat: Prairies, dry open woodlands, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
NEW! Click here to see a range map (and maybe identification notes) from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal
Leaves have petioles.
FLOWER:
Summer
Rays: Pink/ Purplish
Disc: Purplish (fresh pollen pale to bright yellow)
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers neuter
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p290
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p339