Asteraceae
Bush's purple coneflower
Echinacea paradoxa
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Echinacea
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Common names
By language (7)
- Arabic
- قنفذية متناقضة
- arz
- قنفذيه متناقضه
- Chinese
- 黄花松果菊, 黄色松果菊
- Dutch
- Gele zonnehoed
- English
- Bush's purple coneflower
- Hungarian
- Sárga kasvirág
- Swedish
- Gul läkerudbeckia
Synonyms
- Brauneria paradoxa Norton
- Echinacea atrorubens var. paradoxa (Norton) Cronquist
- Echinacea paradoxa var. paradoxa
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos

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Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: S.G.S., CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: S.G.S., CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: S.G.S., CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Eric Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: S.G.S., CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: S.G.S., CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: S.G.S., CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.