The prairie restoration areas hold many species of plants including lead plant, and purple coneflower.

Black-eyed Susans and purple coneflower are ending their late-summer show near a large rock with a plaque fastened to it.

The purple coneflower, Echinacea, is quite similar in form but an entirely separate genus.

Also prairie plants, like coreopsis, black-eyed Susan, purple coneflower, butterfly weed and yarrow.

During summer, look for the purple coneflower and the Indian blanket flower.

Some of the plant's common names are the purple coneflower or black-eyed Susan.

The prickly seed heads of purple coneflower, held aloft on stiff stems, are worth keeping as well.

Becky Friedman, 25, a former schoolteacher, has used echinacea, made from purple coneflower, for five years.

It's a paradox because it's a purple coneflower that's yellow.

Closely allied to this beauty and often found blooming in tandem with it is purple coneflower or Echinacea.