Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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Forb
Perennial

Native: south central US

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers neuter
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Achene

 

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

PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Echinacea paradoxa   FAMILY Asteraceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Yellow Coneflower

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image of Echinacea paradoxa, Yellow Coneflower

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ecpa2_001_lvd