Can you help identify this flower?

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/ju...

Can you help identify this flower?
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
Reply:Looks almost like a coneflower or some type of daisy.
Reply:it looks like a purple cone flower
Reply: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.
Reply:purple coneflower
Reply:sure looks lie a "purple coneflower" aka


Echinacea Purpurea
Reply:It is a Cone Flower,in the Daisy Family, another name it is called is Echinacea..
Reply:I believe it is an ASTOR DAISY. Look up Astor Daisy and see if it's close. It's pretty!
Reply: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/pla... - Plant finder.





Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea):


http://www.saundersbrothers.com/Catalog/...


http://www.wwf.org.uk/core/gallery/galle...


http://www.cobleskill.edu/courses/orht32...





Apparently it's medicinal too.
Reply: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
Reply:it may be ginia
Reply:It definately looks like purple cone flower.
Reply:that is a cone flower. they come in all different colors