Elixir of Echinacea
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The purple coneflower, or Echinacea angustifolia, and the eight other members of that genus are attractive and useful plants for both gardens and pharmaceutical firms. E purpurea is the best known to gardeners, followed by E pallida, the pale purple coneflower. E angustifolia is far more drought-resistant than either, while E paradoxa, with its yellow ray florets, is perhaps more striking. E tennesseensis was among the first plants labeled endangered species. Native Americans rightly considered the plants medicinal.
Publication Name: American Horticulturist
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0096-4417
Year: 1995
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Woodland
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When planting a woodland garden one should aim for dappled shade, where the canopy is thin enough to allow sparkles of sunlight to go across the forest floor. Many of the most colorful woodland wildflowers are spring ephemerals plants that make their aboveground growth early and then retreat underground as the tree canopy fills out and temperature climbs.
Publication Name: Horticulture, Gardening at its Best
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0018-5329
Year: 2004
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Great plants of the Great Plains
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The prairies contain many attractive perennial flowers and ornamental grasses. Some of the flowers include prairie blazing star, shortstem spirderwort, phlox and black sampson. Ornamental grasses include little bluestem and side oats grama.
Publication Name: Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0018-5329
Year: 1995
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