553

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains)

Look for it in savannas, bogs, other moist areas, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite (upper leaves often alternate)
Leaves sessile, or petioles to 5mm long

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!

• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p434
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p296
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p345
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p181
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p045

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Eupatorium pilosum   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eupatorium pilosum   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-34-015:
Eupatorium pilosum   FAMILY Asteraceae__

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