Echinacea Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea), the purple coneflower, is a perennial of the daisy family, Asteraceae, native to open woods, prairies, and roadsides of the central and eastern United States from Ohio and Iowa south to Georgia and Louisiana, and one of the most planted native wildflowers in American gardens. It grows 60 to 120 centimeters with stiff, bristly stems and rough, coarsely toothed oval leaves, and from midsummer carries large flower heads whose pink-purple rays droop slightly around a spiny, domed, orange-brown cone; the Greek name refers to a hedgehog. The root is dark and fibrous with a tingling, faintly sweet taste. We extract the dried herb and root separately.