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4465

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in - NC SC

Rare (an endemic)

Look for it in dry to mesic woodlands and roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Usually opposite, upper sometimes alternate
Leaves sessile

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Lustrous black
Achene

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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Leaves of Fernald's Thoroughwort are longer and taper to a longer point than those of its close relatives. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

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

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

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Eupatorium album var. vaseyi

COMMON NAME:
Fernald’s Thoroughwort, Fernald’s Eupatorium

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