Eutrochium dubium
| Eutrochium dubium | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Eupatorieae |
| Genus: | Eutrochium |
| Species: | Eutrochium dubium |
| Binomial name | |
| Eutrochium dubium | |
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Eutrochium dubium,[2] also called coastal plain joe pye weed, is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family. It is native to the eastern United States and Canada, primarily the Atlantic coastal plain from Georgia to Nova Scotia.[3]
Eutrochium dubium is a herbaceous perennial plant herb sometimes as much as 170 cm (68 inches or 5 2/3 feet) tall. Stems are sometimes purple, sometimes green with purple spots. The plant produces numerous flower heads in flat-topped arrays, each head has 4-10 dark purple (rarely pink or white) disc florets but no ray florets.[4]
References
- ↑ Tropicos, Eutrochium dubium (Willd. ex Poir.) E.E. Lamont
- ↑ "Eutrochium dubium information from NPGS/GRIN". Ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distrubtion map
- ↑ Flora of North America, Eutrochium dubium (Willdenow ex Poiret) E. E. Lamont, 2004. Coastal plain joepyeweed, joepye thoroughwort
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