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Echinacea paradoxa

Bush's purple coneflower, yellow coneflower
Habit Plants to 90 cm (roots fusiform to elongate-turbinate, branched).
Herbage

sparsely to densely hairy (hairs appressed to ascending).
Stems

usually yellowish green (usually not branched).
Basal leaves

petioles 0–15 cm;

blades (3-) or 5-nerved, usually linear or lanceolate, rarely ovate, 5–35 × 0.5–2(–2.5) cm, bases usually attenuate, margins entire (usually ciliate).
Peduncles

(2–)10–30 cm.
Receptacles

paleae 10–14 mm, tips red to orange, often incurved, sharp-pointed.
Ray corollas

yellow (var. paradoxa) or pinkish to white (var. neglecta), laminae reflexed, 30–70 × 3–8 mm, sparsely hairy abaxially.
Disc corollas

4.5–6.2 mm, lobes pinkish to yellowish.
Phyllaries

lanceolate to ovate, 7–12 × 1–4 mm.
Cypselae

tan or bicolored (with distal dark brown band), 4–5.5 mm, faces ± tuberculate, usually glabrous (angles of ray cypselae hairy distally in var. neglecta);

pappi to ca. 1.2 mm (major teeth 0–4).
Discs

ovoid to conic, 2–3.5 × 2–3.5 cm.

Echinacea paradoxa
Distribution
from FNA
AR; MO; OK; TX
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Ray corollas yellow; n Arkansas, s Missouri
var. paradoxa
1. Ray corollas light purple, pink, or white; s Okla-homa, n Texas
var. neglecta
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 90.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Echinacea
Sibling taxa
E. angustifolia, E. atrorubens, E. laevigata, E. pallida, E. purpurea, E. sanguinea, E. simulata, E. tennesseensis
Subordinate taxa
E. paradoxa var. neglecta, E. paradoxa var. paradoxa
Synonyms Brauneria paradoxa
Name authority (Norton) Britton: in N. L. Britton and A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S. ed. 2, 3: 476. (1913)
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