ECHINACEA WILDFLOWER EMBROIDERY NEEDLEPOINT WALLPAPER Pattern
by PainterArtist FIN
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ECHINACEA WILDFLOWER EMBROIDERY NEEDLEPOINT WALLPAPER Pattern
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PainterArtist FIN
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Painting - Mixed Media
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ECHINACEA WILDFLOWER by PainterArtistFIN from www.wholisticartsschool.com
ECHINACEA WILDFLOWER Fabric Embroidery Needlepoint Wallpaper Pattern by PainterArtistFIN at www.wholisticartsschool.com
Echinacea species are herbaceous, drought-tolerant perennial plants growing up to (140 cm or possibly 4
feet, reference needed) in height. They grow from taproots, except E. purpurea, which grows from a short
caudex with fibrous roots. They have erect stems that in most species are unbranched. Both the basal and
cauline leaves are arranged alternately. The leaves are normally hairy with a rough texture, having
uniseriate trichomes (1-4 rings of cells) but sometimes they lack hairs. The basal leaves and the lower stem
leaves have petioles, and as the leaves progress up the stem the petioles often decrease in length. The leaf
blades in different species may have one, three or five nerves. Some species have linear to lanceolate
shaped leaves, and others have elliptic- to ovate-shaped leaves; often the leaves decrease in size as they
progress up the stems. Leaf bases gradually increase in width away from the petioles or the bases are
rounded to heart shaped. Most species have leaf margins that are entire, but sometimes they are dentate
or serrate. The flowers are collected together into single rounded heads that terminate long peduncles. The
inflorescences have crateriform to hemispheric shaped involucres which are 1240 mm wide. The phyllaries,
or bracts below the flower head, are persistent and number 1550. The phyllaries are produced in a 24
series. The receptacles are hemispheric to conic in shape. The paleae (chaffs on the receptacles of many
Asteraceae) have orange to reddish purple ends, and are longer than the disc corollas. The paleae bases
partially surrounding the cypselae, and are keeled with the apices abruptly constricted to awn-like tips. The
ray florets number 821 and the corollas are dark purple to pale pink, white, or yellow. The tubes of the
corolla are hairless or sparsely hairy, and the laminae are spreading, reflexed, or drooping in habit and
linear to elliptic or obovate in shape. The abaxial faces of the laminae are glabrous or moderately hairy. The
flower heads have typically 200-300 fertile, bisexual disc florets but some have more. The corollas are
pinkish, greenish, reddish-purple or yellow and have tubes shorter than the throats. The pollen is normally
yellow in most species, but usually white in E. pallida. The three or four-angled fruits (cypselae), are tan or
bicolored with a dark brown band distally. The pappi is persistent and variously crown-shaped with 0 to 4 or
more prominent teeth. x = 11.[2]
Like all Asteraceae, the flowering structure is a composite inflorescence, with purple (rarely yellow or
white) florets arranged in a prominent, somewhat cone-shaped head "cone-shaped" because the petals
of the outer ray florets tend to point downward (are reflexed) once the flower head opens, thus forming a
cone. Plants are generally long lived, with distinctive flowers. The common name "cone flower" comes from
the characteristic center cone at the center of the flower. The generic name Echinacea is rooted in the
Greek word ἐχῖνος (echinos), meaning sea urchin,[3] it references the spiky appearance and feel of the
flower heads. from wickipedia.com
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