Ageratina adenophora |
Ageratina jucunda |
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Crofton weed, eupatory, Mexican devil, sticky snakeroot, thoroughwort |
hammock snakeroot, lesser snakeroot |
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Habit | Subshrubs, 50–220 cm. | Perennials, 40–80(–100) cm. |
Stems | (usually purplish when young) erect, stipitate-glandular. |
erect, lax, minutely pilose. |
Leaves | opposite; petioles 10–25 mm; blades (abaxially purple) ovate-lanceolate or ovate-deltate to lanceolate-ovate, (1.5–)2.5–5.5(–8) × 1.5–4(–6) cm, bases cuneate to obtuse or nearly truncate, margins serrate, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces stipitate- to sessile-glandular. |
opposite; petioles 7–15(–22) mm; blades narrowly deltate to rhombic, 2–6(–7) × 1.5–4 cm, (usually subcoriaceous) bases usually cuneate, sometimes truncate to slightly subcordate, margins usually coarsely serrate or incised, sometimes crenate to subentire, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous or hairy on veins. |
Peduncles | 5–12 mm, densely stipitate-glandular and sometimes also sparsely viscid-puberulent. |
2–10 mm, sparsely puberulent. |
Involucres | 3.5–4 mm. |
2.5–4 mm. |
Corollas | white, pink-tinged, lobes sparsely hispidulous. |
white, lobes glabrous or sparsely short-hirtellous. |
Phyllaries | apices acute, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular. |
apices acute, abaxial faces puberulent to villous-puberulent. |
Heads | clustered. |
clustered. |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
usually finely hirtellous-strigose on distal 1/3, sometimes glabrous. |
2n | = 51. |
= 34. |
Ageratina adenophora |
Ageratina jucunda |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Aug(–Sep). | Flowering (Sep–)Oct–Dec(–Jan). |
Habitat | Stream margins, ditches, road embankments, hillsides | Sand pine scrub, longleaf pine-turkey oak sand ridges, pine-palmetto, live-oak woods, hammocks, dunes, roadsides, old fields, stream banks, dry flatwoods |
Elevation | 400–900 m (1300–3000 ft) | 0–50 m (0–200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico; Intoduced [Also introduced in Europe, Pacific Islands (New Zealand)]
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FL; GA
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 553. | FNA vol. 21, p. 551. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Ageratina | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Ageratina |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Eupatorium adenophorum | Eupatorium jucundum |
Name authority | (Sprengel) R. M. King & H. Robinson: Phytologia 19: 211. (1970) | (Greene) Clewell & Wooten: Brittonia 23: 142. (1971) |
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