Purple cone flower

Flannery, MA. From Rudbeckia to Echinacea The emergence of the purple cone flower in modem therapeutics. Pharm Hist 1999 41 (2) 52—59. 

Echinacea angustifolia DC, E. purpurea (L.) Moench, E. pallida (Nutt.) Britton, American cone flower, black susans, comb flower, hedgehog, Indian head, Kansas snakeroot, narrow-leaved purple cone flower, purple cone flower, scurvy root, snake root (Anonymous, 1996)... 

Common/vernacular names Purple cone-flower, common purple coneflower (E. purpurea), pale purple coneflower (E. pallida)-, mixed lots of E. angustifolia dindE. pallida ambiguously traded as Kansas snakeroot. ... 

Purple, daisylike petals surround the prickly, brown centers of purple coneflower s [Echinacea purpurea) 1 "-4" wide blossoms. Plants grow 3-4 tall and bloom from early summer until frost. The cone-shaped centers persist throughout the winter, providing interest after the petals have fallen. Pale cone-flower [E. pallida) has creamy white petals. 

Echinacea, better know as the purple coneflower, is a plant native to the United State and can be found growing as a wildflower in the prairies of the Great Plains states and as far south as Texas. The flowers are a rich purple and the florets are seated round a high cone. It has a faint aromatic smell, with a sweetish taste that leaves a tingling sensation, an indication of isobutylamides. 

Lodgepole pine is monoecious, with male and female strobih ( flowers ) usually home separately on the same tree. Female strobih are usuaUy at the apical end of main branches in the upper crown, while pollen strobih originate in the lower crown. Female strobih are reddish-purple and develop in whorls of two to five. Pollen cones are pale yellow to yehowish- orange and occur in crowded clusters at the base of new shoots (Lotan and Critchfield, 1990). 

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