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Echinacea angustifolia

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A perennial herb of the COMPOSITAE family that grows up to 45 cm. The leaves are sparse, solitary, lanceolate to linear, opposite or alternate with rough surface, 7.5 to 20 cm long, entire margined on slender petioles. The dried rhizome is grayishbrown, often twisted, longitudinally furrowed, up to about 1 cm in diameter. The transverse section shows a thin bark and a yellowish porous wood flecked with black. The flower heads are large and solitary on terminal peduncles with spreading ray florets. The bracts are in a number of rows. The bracts are dry or leafy, rigid, thorny tipped, and longer than the conical erect disc florets. The reddish or occasionally white florets are conspicuous, usually sterile lingual florets and 3 cm long.

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