Clintbrown, you're saying that ALL 'PowWow' plants sold at nurseries are from seed? That it's a seed STRAIN?! (As opposed to propagations of a selected seedling.)
I didn't know that. Seriously. Wow.
I mean, I am not unfamiliar with the concept, at least with regards to ANNUALS. I think of Echinacea as a PERENNIAL, so this comes as somewhat of a shock to me, that named perennials could be a seed strain, as opposed to a selected and propagated individual cultivar. I just thought of the names 'PowWow White' and 'PowWow Wild Berry' as being just unimaginative, or else maybe originally related siblings or indicating the name of the originating nursery or something like that. It truly never occurred to me that the names indicated seed strains, as with certain annuals.
Now (I'm almost afraid to ask) is that the case with any and all commercially available Echinacea? Are there any truly selected and asexually propagated cultivars? Or am I clueless (well, with respect to Echinacea I concede that) and missing something?
