Echinacea tennesseensis

(Beadle) Small

Man. S.E. Fl., 1421, 1509. 1933.

Common names: Tennessee purple coneflower
EndemicConservation concern
Basionym: Brauneria tennesseensis Beadle Bot. Gaz. 25: 359. 1898
Synonyms: Echinacea pallida var. tennesseensis (Beadle) Binns, B. R. Baum & Arnason
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 92. Mentioned on page 89.

Plants to 50 cm (roots elongate-turbinate, branched). Herbage sparsely to densely hairy (indument relatively soft, hairs spreading, to 2+ mm). Stems yellowish green becoming tan. Basal leaves: petioles 2–10 cm; blades 1-nerved or 3-nerved, linear to lanceolate, 6–12 × 0.7–1.5 cm, bases attenuate, margins entire (usually ciliate). Peduncles 8–25+ cm. Phyllaries lanceolate to ovate, 5–10 × 1.5–2.5 mm. Receptacles: paleae 9–12 mm, tips purple, 2–3 mm, often incurved, rounded to acute. Ray corollas pink to purplish, laminae spreading to reflexed, 20–40 × 3–4 mm, moderately hairy abaxially. Discs conic, 10–25 × 15–25 mm. Disc corollas 5.5–6.5 mm, lobes usually purple. Cypselae tan, 4–5 mm, faces smooth, glabrous; pappi to ca. 1.2 mm (major teeth 0–4). 2n = 22.


Phenology: Flowering in summer.
Habitat: Dry, rocky hills, barrens
Elevation: 100–200 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Echinacea tennesseensis is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

Lower Taxa

None.

"broader" is not a number.

... more about "Echinacea tennesseensis"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
connate +  and distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
spiciform +, racemiform +, paniculiform +, corymbiform +  and cymiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Lowell E. Urbatsch +, Kurt M. Neubig +  and Patricia B. Cox +
(Beadle) Small +
bristlelike +
coroniform +
attenuate +
Brauneria tennesseensis +
3-nerved +  and 1-nerved +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
linear;lanceolate +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
winged;ribbed;winged;ribbed +
tuberculate +  and rugose +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
Tennessee purple coneflower +
yellow +, reddish purple +, greenish +, pinkish +, dark purple +  and pale-pink white or yellow +
hairy +  and glabrous +
4-angled +  and 3-angled +
fertile +  and bisexual +
0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br /> (0.65 cm6.5 mm <br />0.0065 m <br />) +
fertile +  and bisexual +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
15mm;25mm +
100–200 m +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Dry, rocky hills, barrens +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
crateriform;hemispheric +
20mm;40mm +
spreading +  and reflexed +
cauline +  and basal +
triangular +
2-carpellate +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
persistent +
coroniform +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br />) +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
Flowering in summer. +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
15 +  and 50 +
unequal +  and subequal +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
Man. S.E. Fl., +
sterile +  and fertile +
pink +  and purplish +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
hemispheric;conic +
drew1995a +
exalbuminous +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
branched +  and unbranched +
yellowish green becoming tan +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
Echinacea pallida var. tennesseensis +
Echinacea tennesseensis +
Echinacea +
species +
rounded +  and acute +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
cylindric +
shorter to longer than campanulate +
toothed +  and entire +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (140 cm1,400 mm <br />1.4 m <br />) +
200 cm2,000 mm <br />2 m <br /> (400 cm4,000 mm <br />4 m <br />) +