coneflower
noun
cone·flow·er
ˈkōn-ˌflau̇(-ə)r 
: any of several composite plants (as of the genera Echinacea and Ratibida) having cone-shaped flower disks: such as
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But here, Trisha Snider captured a wren grasping onto gray-head coneflowers like stilts, its beak open in song.
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Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Add plants that support all stages of the pollinators’ lifecycle, such as various types of milkweed, coneflowers, bee balm, and cosmos to feed pollinators from summer through fall.
—Peter Gorman, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
Luckily, deer turn their noses up at coneflower—the spiny center is a turn-off.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 May 2024
The bloom was always brief, though, only lasting two weeks before making way for the next rounds of flowers – iris, yarrow, honeysuckle, coneflower – each tossing its own scent into the bouquet of summer.
—Lily Stewart, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024
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Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Add plants that support all stages of the pollinators’ lifecycle, such as various types of milkweed, coneflowers, bee balm, and cosmos to feed pollinators from summer through fall.
—Peter Gorman, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
Luckily, deer turn their noses up at coneflower—the spiny center is a turn-off.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 May 2024
The bloom was always brief, though, only lasting two weeks before making way for the next rounds of flowers – iris, yarrow, honeysuckle, coneflower – each tossing its own scent into the bouquet of summer.
—Lily Stewart, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024
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“Coneflower.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coneflower. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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