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Echinacea description

Echinacea is a genus containing nine species of flowering plants, part of the Asteraceae family, all of them native of North America. The scientific Latin name of Echinacea is Echinacea purpurea and it’s the most used, but Echinacea has also common names, of which the often known is purple coneflower, but the flowering plant of Echinacea is also called simply coneflower or American coneflower.

Echinacea is a herbaceous, flowering plant, a tallish one, that often reach over 1 or even 2 m in height, with lanceolate to elliptic leaves and purple flowers of which heads are cone-shaped. Read the rest of this entry »