Crossline skippers (Polites origenes) foraging on smooth coneflower

Two small, brown butterflies on a flower with pink long petals and a deep redish-brown seed head.

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Smooth coneflower (Echinacea laevigata) is a perennial herb that lives in open grasslands in VA, NC, SC and GA. It is not to be confused with its close relative and commercially available purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea. According to botanist Ronald L. Mc Gregory, Echinacea plants are self-incompatible meaning they require pollen from another plant and therefore depend on insect pollinators for cross-pollination.

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Eastern North Carolina Ecological Services

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Prairie

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Echinacea laevigata

Polites origenes

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Endangered and/or Threatened species

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