Flora of North America species comparison

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Echinacea sanguinea

sanguine purple coneflower
Habit Plants to 120 cm (roots fusiform to elongate-turbinate, branched).
Herbage

sparsely to densely hairy (hairs spreading, to 1.5 mm) or glabrate.
Stems

mostly green to purplish.
Basal leaves

petioles 4–12 cm;

blades (1-) or 3-nerved, elliptic to lanceolate, 8–30 × 1–3 cm, bases attenuate, margins entire (usually ciliate).
Peduncles

20–50+ cm.
Receptacles

paleae 8–11 mm, tips purple, slightly curved, usually rounded.
Ray corollas

pink to reddish purple, laminae reflexed, 40–70 × 3–4 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy abaxially.
Disc corollas

5.5–6.7 mm, lobes usually purple.
Phyllaries

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

tan to bicolored (with distal dark brown band), 2.5–5 mm, faces ± tuberculate, glabrous;

pappi to ca. 1 mm (major teeth 0–4).
Discs

subspheric, 15–30 × 20–30 mm.
2n

= 22.

Echinacea sanguinea
Phenology Flowering late spring–early summer.
Habitat Sandy, open, pine woods, prairies
Elevation 0–200 m (0–700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AR; LA; OK; TX
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 92.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Echinacea
Sibling taxa
E. angustifolia, E. atrorubens, E. laevigata, E. pallida, E. paradoxa, E. purpurea, E. simulata, E. tennesseensis
Synonyms E. pallida var. sanguinea
Name authority Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 354. (1840)
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