Echinacea or coneflower is a beautiful American Native Prairie Flower. In recent years however, I am seeing more and more hybrids of Echinacea. A recent trip to a nursery showed this white flowered echinacea above and the one below entitled "gum drop".
While hybrids are fun, the native Echinacea (below) offers colorful blooms for about a month in late summer, is disease resistant AND offers the medicinal properties of immune system boosting. When plants are hybridized to have different color flowers or a longer blooming season or for any reason really, the medicinal constituents in the plant are then compromised so often it is not nearly as effective medicinally.
4 comments:
So that's what my coneflower is! You gals are just full of great information.
Love this flower in all it's varieties.
This *must* be the hardiest of plants, because it is growing in the traffic islands downtown where I work, and despite very little rain it is growing beautifully!
I have never seen the gumdrop ones! It kinda looks like it's having a bad hair day. LOL! The purple variety blooms profusely here.
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