Taxon

Echinacea 'Balsomsed' Sombrero® Salsa Red

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Common name: coneflower
Family: Asteraceae subfam. Asteroideae (aster)
Distribution: E United States
Life form: Herbaceous Perennial
Description: This is an compact, upright coneflower that typically grows in a clump to 22-24” tall and to 16-20" wide on sturdy stems that do not need staking. Each mildly-aromatic flower (to 3" diameter) features drooping, showy, deep orange-red rays in a single whorl (about 25 rays per whorl) surrounding a sombrero-shaped, orange-brown center cone containing numerous (to around 300), tiny, spirally-arranged disk florets. Flowers bloom from late spring to late summer, sometimes with additional sporadic bloom until frost. Strigose, widely-serrate, medium green leaves (to 7” long) are narrow-ovate to lanceolate.

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