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Eupatorium sessilifolium - (image 1 of 4)

Taxonomy

Family: Asteraceae

Habitat

Dry to mesic open woods or woodland edges, in rocky or sandy soil.

Associates

Distribution

Southern NH to southeast MN, south to GA and AR.

Morphology

Perennial from a crown or short caudex; stems solitary, 60-150 cm, puberulent in the inflorescence; leaves mostly glabrous but gland-dotted, opposite, sessile or subsessile, lanceolate, broadly rounded at the base, serrate, acuminate or long acute, venation pinnate; involucres 4.5-6.5 mm; involucral bracts imbricate, broadly rounded to obtuse, villous-puberulent and often also atomiferous-glandular; flowers 5(6), white.

Notes

Flowers July to September

Wetland indicator: NA

A rare species along the northern edge of its range. The plants in these images were cultivated from seed and are most robust than wild plants since they are growing in full sun and mostly without competition.

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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