Not a Hard one, But Very Pretty. Solved!...Pale Purple Coneflower

[WDH]

What is this?

[Furby]

I know, I know!
I deliver them all the time!
And I have some out front. ;) smiley_big_grin3

[WDH]

These are wild.  Are they hard to grow?  The herbo-pharmacutical folks like to collect the roots for herbal medicine.

[Furby]

Well the former owner of my place had some here.
They are still alive............. so they can't be too hard to grow as I've killed most everything else he left behind. :D :
Thought I had some pics, but I guess they aren't digital, so it would take some digging to find them. :-\

[WDH]

Then DIG ;D.  (As everyone else digs into their herbaceous plant ID books ).

[thurlow]

Can't really tell 'cause you got all them flowers in front;  marestail, maybe?  ;D

[WDH]

Keep digging ;D

[Jeff]

Seems to me, those are called coneflowers. Mine died.  :-\

[beenthere]

Agree with Jeff.
Like:
Echinacea purpurea

[WDH]

NO!!  (Well not totally no.........).  Probably not purpurea, but rather pallida ???.  I think this is Pale Purple Coneflower rather than purple coneflower.  However, not totally sure yet. 

[Bro. Noble]

We got those in our area and call them by two different names.  One has a word in it that is no longer politicaly correct,  and the other uses the adjetive purple while yours look pink.  They are cone shaped however ;D

[WDH]

There are nine differerent coneflowers.  Several are endangered.  Not sure which one these are, so any help will be invaluable.  I have several more pics if that would help anyone.  I sent a pic to a "The Nature Conservancy" botantist, and she sent the pics to the the botanists at LSU.  They thought it might be Echinancea pallida, but that is not supposed to occur in San Jacinto County, Texas.  However, there is a bunch of them there, whatever species they are.  In any event, they are one of my favorite flowers .

[Dodgy Loner]

According to every range map I've seen (including the one in "Trees of GA and Adjacent States" and the one provided by the USDA), scarlet oak is not supposed to occur in Houston County, GA.  But I bet you could prove them wrong, couldn't you?  ;) I'm not expert on herbaceous plants, but that looks like a pale purple coneflower to me, regardless of where the picture was taken.

[WDH]

I am with you Dodgy Loner :D. 

[SwampDonkey]

Cone flower don't take shade too well, nor any tall strangling type weeds like purple vetch or bedstraw or morning glory. They wiped them out of the flower beds here. Only thing close to it that we got lots of is bulls eye daisy. It grows in all the run out pasture lands. And if we see any white daisy take over ground it means it's pith poor sour soil.  ;D Coneflower is a prairie native isn't it? They sure make quite a time of it when discussing the disappearing prairie grasslands.

[ARKANSAWYER]

 


  I have them growing in the log yard.

[WDH]

Yes, they are a native prairie species.  The botanists get excited about them.

Arky, you sure take better pictures than I do ;D.