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pale purple coneflower, wavy-leaf purple coneflower

Habit Plants to 100 cm (roots fusiform, branched).
Herbage

sparsely to densely hairy (hairs spreading).

Stems

mostly green to purplish.

Basal leaves

petioles 4–20 cm;

blades (1-), 3-, or 5-nerved, linear to lanceolate, 5–40 × 0.5–4 cm, bases attenuate, margins entire (usually ciliate).

Peduncles

20–40+ cm.

Receptacles

paleae 10–14 mm, tips pinkish to purple, incurved, sharp-pointed.

Ray corollas

rose to pink or white, laminae drooping to reflexed, 40–90 × 4–7 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy abaxially.

Disc corollas

5–6.5 mm, lobes pink to purplish.

Phyllaries

lanceolate to ovate, 7–15 × 1.5–3.5 mm.

Cypselae

tan, 3–4.5 mm, faces smooth, usually glabrous, sometimes (rays) hairy;

pappi to ca. 1 mm (usually without major teeth).

Discs

conic to hemispheric, 20–30 × 20–30 mm.

2n

= 22.

Echinacea simulata

Phenology Flowering late spring–summer.
Habitat Rocky, open, wooded hillsides, prairies
Elevation 100–400 m (300–1300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AR; GA; IL; KY; MO; TN
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Discussion

Echinacea simulata has been reported as introduced in Illinois (http://www.natureserve.org).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

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. sanguinea, E. tennesseensis
Synonyms E. speciosa, E. pallida var. simulata
Name authority McGregor: Sida 3: 282. (1968)
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