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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Eupatorium album
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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Read more about White Boneset at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eupatorium album var. album
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eupatorium album
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Eupatorium album var. album
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Eupatorium album var. album
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-34-007:
Eupatorium album FAMILY Asteraceae__
INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Eupatorium album var. album
INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Eupatorium album var. glandulosum
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eupatorium album
COMMON NAME:
White Boneset, White-bracted Thoroughwort, White Thoroughwort, White Eupatorium
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JK Marlow jkm110415_502
April Carroll County GA
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JK Marlow jkm110415_509b
April Carroll County GA
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JK Marlow jkm200428_4421
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200428_4422
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm230418_2637
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm230509_3109
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm230808_4843
August Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Each head with 4-5 tiny, white, 5-lobed, tubular disk florets with 2 protruding styles, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).
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JK Marlow jkm230808_4845
August Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Lower stem pubescence typically spreading, the hairs 0.5-1mm long, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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JK Marlow jkm230808_4848
August Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_eupatorium_album_2
August
The Sandhills' only Eupatorium w lower leaves distinctly larger than upper, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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JK Marlow jkm230905_5253
September Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm230919_5520
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm230919_5521
September Greenville County SC
Corymb branches pubescent. Involucres cylindric; bracts long-acuminate, apices and margins white, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm151017_479
October Columbia County GA
Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 5-12cm long, crenate to serrate, base cuneate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm151017_481
October Columbia County GA
Hairy lower stem & coarsely toothed leaves with a tapering base, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm161001_857
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Longest petioles to 6mm, or leaves sessile, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm161001_858
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Leaves are sessile, coarsely toothed, mostly elliptical in outline, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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JK Marlow jkm161001_859
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Creamy-white flower heads are borne in a branched flat-topped inflorescence, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Eupatorium album
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eupatorium album var. album
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eupatorium album
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Eupatorium album var. album
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Eupatorium album var. album
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-34-007:
Eupatorium album
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Eupatorium album var. album
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Eupatorium album var. glandulosum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eupatorium album
543
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Dry woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile, or petioles to 6mm long
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: White
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
Flower heads in corymbiform arrays
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Lustrous black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p117
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p434
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p190
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p105
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p077
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p294
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p346
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p181
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p044
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