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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

"The following chronological synopsis of flora accounts of Microstegium is perhaps instructive: not treated by Small (1933), 'local' (Fernald 1950), 'rarely introduced and possibly not established' (Gleason & Cronquist 1952), 'sporadically naturalized' (Godfrey & Wooten 1979), 'a rapidly spreading pernicious invader on moist ground, too common' (Wofford 1989)... This species has become a very serious pest, now ranking as one of the most destructive introduced plants in our area, forming extensive and dense patches, sprawling over and eliminating nearly all other herbaceous plants. Eradication is very difficult, and considering its obvious colonizing abilities, only temporary." — Alan Weakley, Weakley's Flora