NCRPIS Publications and Papers North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station 6-2008 Phylogenetic, morphological, and chemotaxonomic incongruence in the North American endemic genus Echinacea Lex E. Flagel Iowa State University Ryan Adam Rapp Iowa State University Corrinne E. Grover Iowa State University,
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[email protected]. Phylogenetic, morphological, and chemotaxonomic incongruence in the North American endemic genus Echinacea Abstract The tudys of recently formed species is important because it can help us to better understand organismal divergence and the speciation process. However, these species often present difficult challenges in the field of molecular phylogenetics because the processes that drive molecular divergence can lag behind phenotypic divergence. In the current study we show that species of the recently diverged North American endemic genus of purple coneflower,Echinacea, have low levels of molecular divergence.