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Hydrastis canadensis
Hydrastis canadensis, “Goldenseal” RannunculaceaeTook the first picture on a toe slope near the Little Piney River (South of Rolla, MO). It shows how extensive a clonal colony can get. The second picture is from one of my masters research plots at HARC in New Franklin, MO- you can see this is a very shade tolerant…
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Echinacea simulata
Echinacea simulata, “Glade Coneflower” or “Wavy-leaf Purple Coneflower” Asteraceae Picture taken along the driveway at Echo State Park in Missouri, formerly Camp Zoey. Not ordinarily one used for medicine (others in genus used for acute challenges to immune system, during those hours when you realize you need to immediately take rest if you’re gonna…
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Echinacea tennesseensis
Echinacea tennesseensis, “Tennessee purple coneflower” Asteraceae Snapped this picture at Missouri Botanical Garden in summer 2018 with Madeline Wright and Derick Asahl. Edemic to the cedar glades of the central portion of Tennessee. It has been hypothesized that an ancestral Echinacea species spread into middle Tennessee during the hypsothermal period following the last ice age,…
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Echinacea purpurea
Echinacea purpurea, “eastern purple coneflower” Asteraceae That purple coneflower that’s growing in so many front yards (including Dan Bugnitz’s Columbia, MO yard in this picture) turns out to be one of the most popular herbal remedies in the US. It’s commonly used for Rhinovirus and influenza. It’s not at all hard to grow or maintain.…
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Liatris pycnostachya
Liatris pycnostachya “gayfeather”, “prairie blazing star” Asteraceae One of the iconic wildflowers in Missouri, seen here being pollinated by a Hemaris hummingbird moth. CC value=6. Perennial, stems 50-150 cm, mod to densely pubescent with short, curled hairs, may be glabrous toward base. Basal and low stem leaves are mostly short-petiolate, 8-40 cm x 3-13 mm,…
