Taxon: Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench

• conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Melbourne ICN Art. 14.9 & App. IV)
• based on Rudbeckia purpurea L., nom. cons.
• review history of nomenclature proposal concerning this name from the Smithsonian Institution's database

Common names:

• eastern purple-coneflower   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• purple-coneflower   (Source: F Ohio ) – English
  
• echinacée pourpre   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• roter Scheinsonnenhut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• echinacija purpurovaja   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• röd rudbeckia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed13)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Michigan [s.], Ohio
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa [s.], Kansas [Cherokee Co.], Missouri, Oklahoma [e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Germany; Poland
  East Europe: Ukraine

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Binns, S. E. et al. 2001. (1508) Proposal to conserve the name Rudbeckia purpurea [=Echinacea purpurea] (Asteraceae) with a conserved type. Taxon 50:1199–1200.
• Binns, S. E. et al. 2001. Typification of Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench (Heliantheae: Asteraceae) and its implications for the correct naming of two Echinacea taxa. Taxon 50:1169–1175.
• Brummitt, R. K. 2004. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 54. Taxon 53:817–818. [proposal recommended].
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
• Eilers, L. J. & D. M. Roosa. 1994. The vascular plants of Iowa.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Farr, E. R. et al., eds. 1979. Index nomina genericorum.; suppl. 1986
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Echinacea purpurea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Echinacea purpurea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Echinacea purpurea.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Brauneria purpurea (L.) Britton
  
• (≡) Rudbeckia purpurea L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench:

• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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