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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
Echinacea angustifolia DC.	Accepted		TICA
Echinacea atrorubens (Nutt.) Nutt.	Accepted		TICA
Echinacea laevigata (F.E.Boynton & Beadle ex C.L.Boynton & Beadle) S.F.Blake	Accepted		TICA
Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt.	Accepted		TICA
Echinacea paradoxa (Norton) Britton	Accepted		TICA
Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench	Accepted		TICA
Echinacea sanguinea Nutt.	Accepted		TICA
Echinacea serotina (Nutt.) DC.	Accepted		TICA
Echinacea simulata McGregor	Accepted		TICA
Echinacea tennesseensis (Beadle) Small	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 23 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echinacea. Of these 10 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 18 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 23 species names for the genus Echinacea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	43.5%
◕	Synonym	9	39.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	17.4%

All names

The status of the 41 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echinacea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	29.3%
◕	Synonym	25	61.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	9.8%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 23 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	9	0	0	19	82.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	4	4	17.4%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Echinacea, are as follows: