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The genus Echinacea is in the family Compositae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echinacea

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Echinacea angustifolia DC.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea atrorubens (Nutt.) Nutt.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea hybrida Hort.	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea laevigata (F.E.Boynton & Beadle ex C.L.Boynton & Beadle) S.F.Blake	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea pallida Britton	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea paradoxa (Norton) Britton	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11	1
Echinacea porteri Wood	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea sanguinea Nutt.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea serotina (Nutt.) DC.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea simulata McGregor	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea speciosa Lindl.	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Echinacea tennesseensis (Beadle) Small	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11

Statistics

The Plant List includes 31 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echinacea. Of these 10 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 24 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echinacea. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 31 species names for the genus Echinacea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	32.3%
◕	Synonym	15	48.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	19.4%

All names

The status of the 55 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echinacea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	20.0%
◕	Synonym	38	69.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	10.9%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 31 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echinacea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	10	15	0	0	25	80.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	6	6	19.4%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Echinacea is as follows: