Pale Coneflower: Echinacea pallida: Asteraceae
Pale Coneflower © JLChristiansen, 1998
Description:
Flowering heads have a central cluster of reddish-purple disc flowers, surrounded by a ring of long and narrow, whitish, lavender-tinted, ray flowers, that droop. The involucral bracts are lance-shaped and hairy. Flowering heads are typically solitary on the stem. The leaves are lance- shaped and narrow, and attach individually to the stem, by a petiole that has inconspicuous wings. Leaf margins are even, and lack teeth. Both leaves and stems are conspicuously hairy. This species differs from the purple coneflower in having narrower and paler ray flowers. Blooms during June and July, in prairies and prairie plantings. Native to N. A.