Tag: The Flower Hour #25

This beauty is a non-native, robust, pollinator-friendly herbaceous perennial. The etymology of Echinacea is the ancient Greek word ekhinos (ἐχῖνος). The modern Greek word, achinós (αχινός) translates to sea urchin, and has become a fundamental noun in both botany and zoology, where it is used to describe plants and organisms that are thorny, spiky, prickly, barbed, or spinous.…