Coneflowers

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A week or so back, I mentioned stopping by the road to take pictures of some coneflowers. Yup, that's echinacea, famous for possible medicinal effects. The ones I see in the wild here are pale-purple coneflowers, and they're kind of striking: they have the raised cone center like any coneflower, but the petals are long and thin and droopy, as if the flower had long hair and had pushed it back from its eyes.



The ones in gardens are usually the common purple coneflower.



At the zoo, there were some white ones, and I was charmed to meet a bumblebee with a heavy-laden leg of pollen. He clearly was loving the coneflowers.