Purple Coneflower

Tall Grass Praries

Genus and Species: Echinacea purpurea

Habitat: Appears in openings in moist woods and wooded bottomlands, upland prairies, savannas, pastures, and roadsides

Seasons:  early summer to mid fall

Active Chemical Ingredient: Echinacosides




Chemical Structure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinacoside

Uses of specimen:
treats burns (leaves poultice)


Resources: Purple Coneflower. (n.d.). Retrieved September 10, 2015.
Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt. var. angustifolia (DC.) Cronq. Purple Coneflower. (n.d.). Retrieved September 10, 2015.
Echinacea. (n.d.). Retrieved September 10, 2015.