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2446

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare

Look for it in circumneutral soils of woodlands at moderate elevations, per Weakley's Flora

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partial shade

LEAVES:
Simple
Usually opposite, upper sometimes alternate
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Summer
Disc: White
Rays: Absent
Bisexual
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Lustrous black
Achene

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Eupatorium sessilifolium var. brittonianum   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Eupatorium sessilifolium var. brittonianum   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
 Eupatorium sessilifolium

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-34-017b:
 Eupatorium sessilifolium var. sessilifolium   FAMILY Asteraceae__

 

COMMON NAME:
 Britton's Upland Boneset, Britton's Eupatorium

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image of Eupatorium sessilifolium var. brittonianum, Britton's Upland Boneset, Britton's Eupatorium

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_euse3_001_lvd

        

image of Eupatorium sessilifolium var. brittonianum, Britton's Upland Boneset, Britton's Eupatorium

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmesessilifoliumbri_wm1

Month Unknown    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

Heads small, densely clustered in a flat-topped corymb, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Eupatorium sessilifolium var. brittonianum, Britton's Upland Boneset, Britton's Eupatorium

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmesessilifoliumbri_wm2

Month Unknown    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

Leaves broadest near the base, subcoriaceoous, averaging 3x long as wide, per Weakley's Flora.