Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Echinacea laevigata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
"Loss of habitat and fire suppression have greatly reduced populations." Read more from the South Carolina Plant Conservation Alliance.
Read more about Smooth Purple Coneflower at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea laevigata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-62-002:
Echinacea laevigata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Smooth Purple Coneflower, Smooth Coneflower
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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JK Marlow jkm120525_444
May Oconee County SC
Involucral bracts obscurely in 2 series, acute to acuminate, reflexed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm120525_487
May Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120525_491
May Oconee County SC
Leaves lance-ovate to elliptic, glabrous & smooth, base cuneate to attenuate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Tim Spira tpselaevigata2
May
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May
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JK Marlow jkm0406j_37
June Oconee County SC
The disc at first flat, becoming obconic [cone-shaped] in age, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0406k_07
June Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0506j_01
June Oconee County SC
Flower heads solitary & terminal; ray flowers drooping; disc flowers purple, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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JK Marlow jkm0506j_08
June Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow s050716_a
July Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0410p_12
October Oconee County SC
The seed platform is conical and has sharp black spines, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
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Month Unknown
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Echinacea laevigata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinacea laevigata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-62-002:
Echinacea laevigata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
499
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare
Look for it in open woodlands & glades over mafic or calcareous rocks, such as diabase, limestone, & dolomite, rarely in oak-pine savannas of upper Coastal Plain over circumneutral clay sediments, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal
Leaves have petioles.
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Pink
Disc: Purplish
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers neuter
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p146
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p148
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p127
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p385
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p122
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p367
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p206