Eupatorium rotundifolium - (image 1 of 4)
Taxonomy
Family: Asteraceae
Habitat
Dry woods, occasionally in wet soil.
Associates
Distribution
ME to FL, west to southern OH, eastern KY, TN, OK, and TX.
Morphology
Perennial from a short rhizome or crown; stems 30-150 cm, mostly solitary or two; leaves pubescent with spreading, short and soft hairs, often atomiferous-glandular as well, sessile or subsessile, opposite (the upper sometimes alternate), broadly ovate to subrotund, usually evenly toothed, broad-based and trinerved; involucres 4.5-6.5 mm; involucral bracts imbricate, sharply acute to obtuse, villous-puberulent and often atomiferous-glandular as well; flowers 5, white.
Notes
Flowers July to September
Wetland indicator: FAC
Similar to E. pilosum but with much wider leaves.
References
Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY
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