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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Echinacea

Hierarchical position of the Genus Echinacea

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Asteridae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Asteranae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 451. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Asterales Lindl. pub. 1833       Familia  Asteraceae Dumort. pub. Comment. Bot.: 55. Nov-Dec 1822. common name: Sunflowers       Familia  Compositae Giseke pub. Prael. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 538. Apr 1792, nom. cons.       Genus  Echinacea Moench common name: purple coneflower

Named members of the Genus Echinacea

1	Species  angustifolia DC. common name: purple coneflower, echinacea
	2    Varietas  angustifolia common name: blacksamson echinacea 3    Varietas  strigosa R.L. McGregor common name: strigose blacksamson 4    Varietas  tennesseensis (Beadle) Blake syn. Echinacea tennesseensis
5	Species  atrorubens Nutt.
	6    Varietas  paradoxa (J.B.S. Norton) Cronq. syn. Echinacea paradoxa var. paradoxa
7	Species  laevigata (C.L. Boynt. & Beadle) Blake common name: smooth purple coneflower
8	Species  pallida (Nutt.) Nutt. common name: pale cone-flower
	9    Varietas  angustifolia (DC.) Cronq. syn. Echinacea angustifolia var. angustifolia 10    Varietas  sanguinea (Nutt.) Gandhi & Thomas syn. Echinacea sanguinea 11    Varietas  strigosa (R.L. McGregor) Gandhi syn. Echinacea angustifolia var. strigosa
12	Species  paradoxa (J.B.S. Norton) Britt.
	13    Varietas  neglecta R.L. McGregor common name: Bush's purple coneflower 14    Varietas  paradoxa common name: Bush's purple coneflower
15	Species  purpurea (L.) Moench common name: purple coneflower
	16    Varietas  arkansana Steyermark syn. Echinacea purpurea 17    Varietas  laevigata (C.L. Boynt. & Beadle) Cronq. syn. Echinacea laevigata
18	Species  sanguinea Nutt. common name: sanguin purple coneflower
19	Species  simulata R.L. McGregor common name: wavyleaf purple coneflower
20	Species  tennesseensis (Beadle) Small common name: Tennessee purple coneflower

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.