Echinacea (Asteraceae)

Echinacea paradoxa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Asteraceae
Subfamilia: Asteroideae
Tribus: Heliantheae
Subtribus: Zinniinae
Genus: Echinacea
Subgenera: E. subg. Echinacea – E. subg. Pallida

Species: E. angustifolia – E. atrorubens – E. laevigata – E. pallida – E. paradoxa – E. purpurea – E. sanguinea – E. simulata – E. tennesseensis

Name

Echinacea Moench, Meth. 591 (1794) [4 May 1794].

Synonyms

• Brauneria Necker ex Porter & Britton, Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 5: 333. 17 Nov (1894).
• Helichroa Raf., Neogenyton 3 (1825).

Dubious taxa

Echinacea hybrida hort. ex Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 9. Fasc. suppl. 1, 5 (1931), nom. nud., is probably a hybrid of Echinacea purpurea, but disposition is uncertain and of origin in cultivation.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America Regional:Central & Eastern USA Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming Regional:Canada Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming Introduced into: Austria, Baltic States, Bolivia, Borneo, Costa Rica, Delaware, France, Germany, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Korea, Krym, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Poland, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Moench, C. 1794. Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici et Agri Marburgensis. 780 pp., Marburgi Cattorum: Nova Libraria Academiae. BHL Reference page. : 591

Additional references

• Binns, S.E., Baum, B.R. & Arnason, J.T. 2002. A taxonomic revision of Echinacea (Asteraceae: Heliantheae). Systematic Botany 27(3): 610–632. DOI: 10.1043/0363-6445-27.3.610 JSTOR Reference page. 

Links

• International Plant Names Index. 2023. Echinacea (Asteraceae). Published online. Accessed: June 04 2023.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Echinacea (Asteraceae) in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 June 04. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2023. Echinacea (Asteraceae). Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 04 June 2023.
• Hassler, M. 2023. Echinacea (Asteraceae). World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2023. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2023 June 04. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Coneflower
suomi: Punahatut
magyar: Kasvirág
日本語: ムラサキバレンギク属
русский: Эхинация
Türkçe: Kirpi otu

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