Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed removing the Tennessee purple coneflower from the list of threatened and endangered species, marking the success of a decades-long cooperative conservation effort under the Endangered Species Act. Leaves: Leaf Color: Green Leaf Feel: Rough Leaf Type: Simple Leaf Arrangement: Alternate Rosulate Whorled Leaf Shape: Lanceolate Linear Leaf Margin: Entire Hairs Present: Yes Leaf Length: 3-6 inches Leaf Width: Flowers: Flower Color: Orange Pink Purple/Lavender Flower Inflorescence: Head Flower Value To Gardener: Good Cut Good Dried Long Bloom Season Showy Flower Bloom Time: Summer Flower Shape: Radial Flower Petals: more than 20 petals/rays Flower Size: 1-3 inches Flower Description: Bright purple ray florets with a pointy cone of orange disk flowers in the center in summer.Fruit: Fruit Color: Brown/Copper Cream/Tan Display/Harvest Time: Fall Summer Fruit Type: Achene Fruit Length: Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Soil Texture: Clay Shallow Rocky Soil Drainage: Good Drainage Moist Occasionally Dry Available Space To Plant: 12 inches-3 feet USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b.Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial Wildflower Habit/Form: Erect Growth Rate: Slow Maintenance: Low Texture: Medium.Play Value: Attractive Flowers Attracts Pollinators Wildlife Food Source Wildlife Larval Host Dimensions: Height: 1 ft. Attributes: Genus: Echinacea Species: tennesseensis Family: Asteraceae Life Cycle: Perennial Recommended Propagation Strategy: Seed Country Or Region Of Origin: Tennessee Distribution: Tennesse Wildlife Value: This plant supports Wavy-lined Emerald (Synchlora aerata) larvae.Tags: #showy flowers #drought tolerant #wildlife plant #purple flowers #pink flowers #slow growing #nectar plant #coneflower #low maintenance #mass planting #flower arrangements #food source wildlife #deer resistant #daisy-like #vibrant #long bloom time #border planting #pollinator plant #wildflower garden #naturalized area #dried arrangements #larval host plant #rocky soils tolerant #dry soils tolerant #butterfly friendly #bee friendly #woodland garden #wavy-lined emerald butterfly See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: No serious problems. Pollinators will visit the flowers and finches will eat the seeds. Mass plant this perennial in a border, or let it naturalize in a meadow, or in a woodland garden. Tennesse Coneflower will grow in average moist to dry soils in full sun to part shade. If you want to harvest and grow plants from seed it has to be planted several miles away from other Coneflowers plants as they will crossbreed and will not grow true to type. It will cross-pollinate with other Echinaceas. ![]() Stems are topped with erect pink-purple ray flowers (many Echinacea's ray flowers bend backward) and bright orange disk cones from June to August. " Echinacea" is derived from the Greek word echinos which means sea-urchin or hedgehog, referring to the pointy cone found in the center of flowers in this genus. It is only found in an area around Nashville and was once on the endangered list but has since been removed. ![]() Tennesse Coneflower is a relatively slow-growing herbaceous perennial is in the Asteraceae family. Phonetic Spelling ek-in-AY-shee-a ten-eh-see-EN-sis Description
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