Ageratum corymbosum |
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flat-top whiteweed |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs, 30–100 cm (fibrous-rooted). |
Stems | erect to basally decumbent, puberulent to minutely strigoso-hispid. |
Leaf | blades ovate to rhombic-lanceolate, 3–8 × 1–3.5 cm, margins toothed, abaxial faces usually puberulent, sometimes minutely strigoso-hispid, densely gland-dotted. |
Peduncles | finely puberulent (not pilose), eglandular. |
Involucres | 5–6 mm. |
Corollas | usually blue to lavender, sometimes white. |
Phyllaries | narrowly lanceolate (0.4–0.7 mm wide, innermost often 1–1.5 mm longer than outer), finely puberulent, eglandular, tips green or purplish, filiform. |
Cypselae | glabrous; pappi usually crowns of connate scales with erose margins or tubular portions longer than divisions, rarely with 1 or more awnlike lobes. |
2n | = 20, 30, 40. |
Ageratum corymbosum |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Oct. |
Habitat | Crevices, ledges, cliffs, other rocky sites in canyons, along streams, in desert grasslands, oak-agave, oak, oak-juniper, and pine-oak woodlands |
Elevation | (900–)1200–1900 m ((3000–)3900–6200 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico
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Discussion | Habitat information came mostly from collections from Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. Ageratum corymbosum grows in all Mexican states except for the extreme southeast. It has been included in various summaries as occurring in Texas; as noted by D. S. Correll and M. C. Johnston (1970), those records apparently were based on a collection by Charles Wright from southwestern New Mexico. Varieties and forms of Ageratum corymbosum have been recognized (e.g., M. F. Johnson 1971; R. McVaugh 1984). McVaugh wryly noted that extremes of these intergrading infraspecific entities “can be recognized with a little imagination.” The form that reaches the United States (with ovate-lanceolate leaves) is var. jaliscense. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 482. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Ageratum |
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Synonyms | A. corymbosum var. jaliscense, A. salicifolium, A. strictum |
Name authority | Zuccagni: Cent. Observ. Bot., no. 85. (1806) |
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