Ageratina havanensis |
Ageratina herbacea |
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Havana snakeroot, shrubby boneset, white mistflower, white shrub mistflower |
desert ageratina, fragrant snakeroot, white thoroughwort |
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Habit | Shrubs [trees], (30–)69–150(–200) cm. | Perennials or subshrubs, (20–)30–60(–80) cm (woody crowns and woody rhizomes). |
Stems | erect (brittle), puberulent to glabrous. |
erect (brittle), minutely puberulent. |
Leaves | persistent, opposite; petioles 3–10(–15) mm; blades deltate to broadly ovate or somewhat hastate, (2–)3–5(–8) × 2–5 cm, bases truncate to cuneate, margins dentate, apices acute, faces glabrous or nearly so, eglandular. |
opposite; petioles 10–25 mm; blades triangular to lanceolate-ovate or ovate, 2–5(–7) × 1.5–3.5(–4.5) cm, bases truncate to shallowly cordate, margins dentate to serrate-dentate, abaxial faces sparsely hispidulous to glabrate, eglandular. |
Peduncles | 2–14 mm, minutely puberulent. |
4–15 mm, puberulent. |
Involucres | 4–6 mm. |
4–5 mm. |
Corollas | white to slightly pinkish, glabrous. |
white, glabrous. |
Phyllaries | apices acute, abaxial faces glabrous or nearly so. |
apices acute, abaxial faces granular-puberulent. |
Heads | clustered. |
clustered. |
Cypselae | hispid. |
finely strigose-hispidulous. |
2n | = 34. |
= 34. |
Ageratina havanensis |
Ageratina herbacea |
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Phenology | Flowering mainly (Sep–)Oct–Nov(–Dec), also Apr–Jul. | Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Oct. |
Habitat | Bluffs, limestone outcrops and slopes, ledges along streams, often in oak-juniper woodlands | Pine, pine-oak, juniper, and pinyon-juniper woodlands, rocks along streams, slopes, ridges, washes |
Elevation | 100–900 m (300–3000 ft) | 1400–2700(–2900) m (4600–8900(–9500) ft) |
Distribution |
TX; Mexico; West Indies (Cuba)
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AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora)
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Discussion | Ageratina havanensis apparently is the only species of the genus in the flora area with evergreen-persistent leaves. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ageratina herbacea is recognized by the distinctive color of its usually yellow-green, sometimes grayish, leaves, granular-puberulent involucres (with minute, thickened, eglandular hairs), and woody rhizomes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 552. | FNA vol. 21, p. 551. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Ageratina | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Ageratina |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Eupatorium havanense | Eupatorium ageratifolium var. herbaceum, Eupatorium herbaceum |
Name authority | (Kunth) R. M. King & H. Robinson: Phytologia 19: 222. (1970) | (A. Gray) R. M. King & H. Robinson: Phytologia 19: 222. (1970) |
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