I took this picture of a flower, and I'm having trouble finding out what it is. It's purple with petals, and has some sort of spikey center. You can view the photograph at the website below -
http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b82/just_say_maybe48/?action=view¤t=ce9a65bb.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1
2006-07-10 05:27:33 · 14 answers · asked by skasoup4872 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
this picture looks to be Echinacea purpurea "Rubinstern" (ruby star cone flower) though in books they define it as a red to purple color it is much more purple than red, it is definately an Echinacea (common name cone flower) but what exact cultivar is up for debate, i believe it to be rubistern.............blanco
2006-07-10 05:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by blanco 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Looks like a cone flower, but it's not. The center of this flower is dark and flat... the center of a cone flower is shaped as a cone. This flower, I'd like to say, is an African daisy. Their colors range from white, magenta, purple, yellow, orange and rust. They're used as ground covers on the side of roads. You can see it all over the southern California freeways. They are hardy and can compete with other plants very well. Blooming all spring long and first half of the summer.
2006-07-10 06:43:10 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is definitely some type of Daisy. It looks like a Shasta Daisy, although I've never seen a purple one with a red center. Hope this helps. It it a prennial, so it will come up every year, and multiply.
Moira
2006-07-10 05:35:57 · answer #3 · answered by Moira I 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I easily ought to disagree with the guy who suggested that that is a hydrangea - hydrangeas have a lot more suitable leaves, and are oftentimes both pink or blue, searching on the soil in which they're planted; i have protected a link to a strong image of hydrangeas lower than. That being suggested, i do not understand what that is - regardless of the indisputable fact that it seems healthful, so i ought to say purely keep doing regardless of you're already doing!
2016-11-06 03:42:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a Cone Flower,in the Daisy Family, another name it is called is Echinacea..
2006-07-10 06:06:07 · answer #5 · answered by roeskats 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It definately looks like purple cone flower.
2006-07-10 14:47:52 · answer #6 · answered by Michelle N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No idea but it looks gorgeous! Great photo.
Try asking someone at the Royal Horticultural Society.
info@rhs.org.uk
http://www.rhs.org.uk
http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantfinder.asp - Plant finder.
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea):
http://www.saundersbrothers.com/Catalog/JPGS/Perennials/Echinacea%20purpurea%20'Magnus'%20SBI2004.JPG
http://www.wwf.org.uk/core/gallery/gallery.asp?page=1&catID=122&libraryID=28620&strSearch=_
http://www.cobleskill.edu/courses/orht321/Echinacea%20purpurea%200104.jpg
Apparently it's medicinal too.
2006-07-10 05:30:59 · answer #7 · answered by Starling 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure looks lie a "purple coneflower" aka
Echinacea Purpurea
2006-07-10 10:57:53 · answer #8 · answered by Papa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it looks like a purple cone flower
2006-07-10 05:38:09 · answer #9 · answered by imma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks almost like a coneflower or some type of daisy.
2006-07-10 05:36:31 · answer #10 · answered by TheGuru 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋