{"id":340,"date":"2014-11-14T10:34:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2015-05-05T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:33:07","slug":"eastern-purple-coneflower-echinacea-purpurea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Eastern purple coneflower <em>(Echinacea purpurea)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/eastern_purple_coneflower_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-341\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/eastern_purple_coneflower_02-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern purple coneflower\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/eastern_purple_coneflower_02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/eastern_purple_coneflower_02-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/eastern_purple_coneflower_02.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eastern purple coneflower <em>(Echinacea purpurea)<\/em>\u00a0is not native to Minnesota. It is a cultivated plant sold in nurseries. The seeds are often included in wildflower mixes purchased by parks. As a result, this plant can often be found in county and state parks in Minnesota, especially in recently restored prairies and in showcase plantings near visitor centers.<\/p>\n<p>This species is distinguished from narrow-leaved purple coneflower, a native species, by the taller stature; the leaves that are broader, have a rounded base, and have toothed margins; and the larger flower head.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/eastern_purple_coneflower.html\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/eastern_purple_coneflower.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/eastern_purple_coneflower.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=340\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)\u00a0is not native to Minnesota. It is a cultivated plant sold in nurseries. The seeds are often included in wildflower mixes purchased by parks. As a result, this plant can often be found in county and state parks in Minnesota, especially in recently restored prairies and in showcase plantings near visitor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}