Images of Echinacea, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea; portrait/vertical aspect.

Steven Foster's Stock Images of Echinacea, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea; portrait/vertical aspect. Photos © 2011 Steven Foster. Please contact us for pricing and terms at sfoster@stevenfoster.com or call +1-479-253-2629.

Sixty images of Echinacea purpurea, developed as a medicinal plant product in the late 1930s in Germany, is considered a nonspecific immune system stimulant used for wounds, herpes sores, canker sores throat infections; preventative for influenza, colds. A folk remedy for brown recluse spider bites.Native in open woods and thickets in eastern North America to the Midwest, Echinacea purpurea is also widely cultivated as a garden perennial. The entire world's commercial supply of E. purpurea is cultivated.