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I've photographed this flower a few days ago in New York City:

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Does anybody know the name of it? (and how is the orange part called?)

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It's Echinacea. I've linked to one site but if you run an images search with Echinacea as the search term you'll see lots of examples.

And here is the WP page.

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Echinacea are members of the Compositae. The flower (the head) in your picture is actually made up of lots of individual smaller flowers (i.e. it is a composite flower). The petals are formed by ray flowers, and the central part, the disc is made up of disc flowers. More details at the WP page I have linked to for Compositae.

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    $\begingroup$ And how is the orange part called? $\endgroup$
    – Martin Thoma
    Jul 15, 2014 at 12:05
  • $\begingroup$ @moose it is the head inflorescence which consists of ray florets and disk florets $\endgroup$
    – agha rehan abbas
    Jul 15, 2014 at 13:17
  • $\begingroup$ @moose it is not a flower actually but an inflorescence which resembles like a flower. ray florets in general are situated at the peripheral parts of inflorescence and disk florets are situated in the centre which is a unique feature of asteraceae (other name for compositae) $\endgroup$
    – agha rehan abbas
    Jul 15, 2014 at 13:20
  • $\begingroup$ @moose ray florets are the female flowers and disk florets are the bisexual flowers $\endgroup$
    – agha rehan abbas
    Jul 15, 2014 at 13:22
  • $\begingroup$ The first link is dead. $\endgroup$
    – Martin Thoma
    May 22, 2016 at 12:10

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