2719

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain

Look for it in savannas, seepage bogs, depression ponds, per Weakley's Flora

To see a detailed map, click here

 

...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves more or less sessile

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Lustrous black
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p117
• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p068
• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p191
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p295
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p344
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p165

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Eupatorium leucolepis   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eupatorium leucolepis var. leucolepis   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Eupatorium leucolepis var. leucolepis

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Eupatorium leucolepis

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-34-008:
Eupatorium leucolepis   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Eupatorium leucolepis var. leucolepis

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Eupatorium leucolepis