Echinacea purpurea ‘Fragrant Angel’
Coneflower
This coneflower cultivar is not found in the wild. All coneflowers are popular with butterflies.
Plants: 3′ (1 m) tall and 1½–2′ (45–60 cm) around, with stems that are usually bristly or hairy. They are bred for their pleasant scent, lacking from most coneflowers.
Leaves: May be alternate or opposite, and may be ovate (sort of egg-shaped with a sharp tip) or more like a grass blade in shape, long and narrow. They are up to 6 ⨉ 3″ (15 ⨉ 7.6 cm), with widely spaced teeth and a sandpaper-like feel.
Flowers: These are composite flowers, resembling daisies, 1–1½″ (2.5–3.8 cm) in diameter, with central yellow-brown disk flowers in a flattish or rounded mound, and 10-20 white ray flower petals. On close inspection, the central disk flowers often have red tips. The ray flowers often droop, accentuating the central disk.
Fruits: The central cone flowers become gray seeds in the fall.
Online References:
8/1/2009 · Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine 
| Kingdom | Plantae | Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin) |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta | Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients |
| Division | Magnoliophyta | Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms |
| Class | Magnoliopsida | Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves |
| Subclass | Asteridae | A large class that encompasses asters |
| Order | Asterales | Flowering plants with a central disk flower and surrounding petals, like daisies |
| Family | Asteraceae | The aster family, which also includes daisies and sunflowers; from the Greek ἀστήρ, “star,” for the star-shaped flowers |
| Genus | Echinacea | From the Greek word echinos (Εχίνος), ”hedgehog,” because the central disk flower has the spiny look of a hedgehog |
| Species | purpurea | “Purple,” although this cultivar is white |
Echinacea purpurea ‘Fragrant Angel’ description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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