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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Speciesbox
|genus = Echinacea
|species = sanguinea
|image = Echinacea sanguinea.jpg
|authority = [[Thomas Nuttall|Nutt.]]
|synonyms_ref = <ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/gcc-79641 The Plant List, ''Echinacea sanguinea'' Nutt. ]</ref>
|synonyms = *''Echinacea pallida'' var. ''sanguinea'' <small>(Nutt.) Gandhi & R.D.Thomas</small>
}}

'''''Echinacea sanguinea''''', the '''sanguine purple coneflower''', is a herbaceous perennial native to open sandy fields and open pine woods and prairies in eastern [[Texas]], southeastern [[Oklahoma]], [[Louisiana]], and southwestern [[Arkansas]].<ref>[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Echinacea%20sanguinea.png Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map]</ref> It is the southernmost ''Echinacea'' species.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gladstar|first=Rosemary|author2=Pamela Hirsch|title=Planting the Future|publisher=Bear & Company|date=2000|pages=96|isbn=978-0-89281-894-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ndk42wxMBzUC&pg=PA96}}</ref> The specific epithet ''sanguinea'', which is Latin for "blood", refers to the color of the petals.

''Echinacea sanguinea'' is [[herbaceous]] [[perennial]] up to 120 cm (3 ft) tall with an unbranched stem. The [[Alternate leaf|alternate]] leaves are typically close to the ground, growing 10–25 cm (4–10 in) long and 6 mm (¼ in) wide, with the upper leaves having long hairs. Each stem has one rose-pink to pale purple [[flower head]], up to 5 cm (2 in) long and 12 mm (½ in) wide, with 10–20 [[ray flowers]] that conspicuously droop. The 2.5 cm (1 in) cone-shaped center containing the [[disc floret]]s is purplish-brown on the outside and greenish toward the center.<ref>{{cite book|last=Loughmiller|first=Lynn|author2=Lynn Sherrod|title=Texas Wildflowers|publisher=University of Texas Press|date=1984|page=[https://archive.org/details/texaswildflowers0000loug/page/55 55]|isbn=978-0-292-78060-6|url=https://archive.org/details/texaswildflowers0000loug|url-access=registration}}</ref>

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[[Category:Echinacea|sanguinea]]
[[Category:Flora of the Southern United States]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1840]]

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