🪶Indigenous / Native American
Coneflower (Purple)
Echinacea purpurea
About Coneflower (Purple)
Coneflower (Purple) (Echinacea purpurea) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Immune Support, Common Cold, Wound Healing, and Inflammation. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Echinacea purpurea (eastern purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or purple coneflower) is a North American species of flowering plant in the sunflower family. It is native to eastern North America and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern, southeastern and midwestern United States as well as in the Canadian Province of Ontario. It is most common in the Ozarks and in the Mississippi/Ohio Valley.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both