Eupatorium hyssopifolium

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Eupatorium

Perennials , 30-200 cm. Stems erect , usually not branched proximal to arrays of heads (from caudices or rhizomes) . Leaves mostly cauline; usually opposite (rarely whorled , distal sometimes alternate) ; petiolate or sessile; blades usually 3-nerved from or distal to bases , or pinnately nerved, mostly deltate or ovate to lanceolate or linear (and intermediate shapes , sometimes elliptic , oblong , rhombic , or suborbiculate, sometimes pinnatifid , 1-2-pinnately, ternately, or palmately lobed ), ultimate margins entire or toothed , faces glabrous or puberulent , pubescent , scabrous , or setulose , usually gland-dotted. Heads discoid , in corymbiform or diffuse to dense, paniculiform arrays. Involucres obconic to ellipsoid , 1-3(-5+) mm diam. Phyllaries persistent , 7-15+ in 2-3(-4+) series, (usually green) 2-3-nerved, or not notably nerved, or pinnately nerved, elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, or obovate , usually unequal, sometimes ± equal (margins scarious , hyaline , apices rounded to acute or acuminate sometimes mucronate , faces usually puberulent or villous , usually gland-dotted, rarely glabrous) . Receptacles flat or convex , epaleate. Florets (3-) 5(-15+) ; corollas usually white, rarely pinkish, throats funnelform to campanulate , lobes 5, triangular; styles: bases sometimes enlarged, usually puberulent (glabrous in E. capillifolium), branches mostly filiform . Cypselae (brownish to black) prismatic , 5-ribbed, usually glabrous, usually gland-dotted; pappi persistent, of 20-50 (whitish) barbellulate bristles in 1 series. x = 10.

Species 41+ (24 species, including 2 hyb: e North America, Europe, e Asia.

Species identification within Eupatorium is sometimes complicated; polyploidy and apomixis have contributed to the complications. Some species include both sexual diploid and apomictic polyploid plants or populations. V. I. Sullivan (1972) made important contributions to understanding Eupatorium in North America by showing that some fairly distinct , sexual diploid species may include apomictic polyploid plants or populations that do not differ greatly from the diploids. Other apomictic polyploids appear to be intermediate morphologically between pairs of diploid or diploid/polyploid species and were proposed by Sullivan to have originated from interspecific hybridization. Distinction and level of recognition of hybrid apomictic taxa have a large arbitrary component , in part because some apomicts appear to be ephemeral and others may be relatively stable and in part because differences in the relative genomic contributions of the progenitors through dosage effects or backcrossing may affect whether an apomict is morphologically distinctive or part of a continuous series of variation .[1]

Physical Description

Landscaping

Landscape Uses: Back border . Cut flowers. • Care: Deer resistant. Tolerant of coastal conditions. Shear after blooming. Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system . Remove old flowers to prolong flowering. Cut back to the ground at the end of the season .

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,092 meters (0 to 3,583 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Soil: Must have well-drained soil. Tolerates clay soil . Prefers humusy soil.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Water Requirements: Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Uncasia Hyssopifolia

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: New Zealand Plant Name Database, IPNI, Tropicos. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:E365EAD7-D75E-4A72-84C1-E7D0EA64C236

Last scrutiny: 17-Aug-09

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eupatorium

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 93 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

E. album (White Thoroughwort) · E. album var. album (White Thoroughwort) · E. album var. album L. (White Thoroughwort) · E. album var. glandulosum (White Thoroughwort) · E. album var. subvenosum (White Thoroughwort) · E. altissimum (Tall Boneset) · E. anomalum (Florida Thoroughwort) · E. aromaticum 'Joicus Variegated' (Boneset) · E. cannabinum (Ague Weed) · E. cannabinum 'Flore Pleno' (Hemp Agrimony) · E. cannabinum 'Plenum' (Hemp Agrimony) · E. capillifolium (Dog Fennel) · E. chapmanii (Chapman's Thorough-Wort) · E. chinense (Boneset) · E. coelestinum 'Cori' (Cori Hardy Ageratum) · E. coelestinum 'Wayside' (Blue Mistflower) · E. compositifolium (Dogfennel Eupatorium) · E. dubium (Coastal Plain Joe-Pye Weed) · E. dubium 'Little Joe' (Coastal Plain Joe Pye Weed) · E. fistulosum (Hollow Joe-Pye Weed) · E. fistulosum 'Atropurpureum' (Joe Pye Weed) · E. fortunei (Pei Lan) · E. glaucescens (Small-Flower Thorough-Wort) · E. glechonophyllum (Eupatorium) · E. godfreyanum (Godfrey's Boneset) · E. grandiflorum (Tasselflower Brickellbush) · E. hyssopifolium (Hyssop-Leaf Thoroughwort) · E. hyssopifolium var. angustissimum (Hyssop-Leaf Thoroughwort) · E. hyssopifolium var. calcaratum (Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort) · E. hyssopifolium var. hyssopifolium (Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort) · E. hyssopifolium var. laciniatum (Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort) · E. hyssopifolium var. laciniatum Gray (Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort) · E. laciniatum (Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort) · E. lancifolium (Lance-Leaf Thorough-Wort) · E. leptophyllum (False Fennel) · E. leucolepis (Justiceweed) · E. leucolepis (DC.) Torr. and Gray var. leucolepis (DC.) Torr. and Gray (Justiceweed) · E. leucolepis var. leucolepis (Justiceweed) · E. leucolepis var. novae-angliae (Justiceweed) · E. maculatum (Spotted Joe Pye Weed) · E. maculatum Atropurpureum Group (Joe-Pye Weed Atropurpureum Group) · E. maculatum bruneri var. bruneri (Spotted Joe-Pyeweed) · E. maculatum var. bruneri (Spotted Joe-Pye-Weed) · E. maculatum var. bruneri (Gray) Breitung (Spotted Joe-Pye-Weed) · E. maculatum var. foliosum (Spotted Joepyeweed) · E. maculatum var. foliosum (Fern.) Wieg. (Spotted Joepyeweed) · E. maculatum var. maculatum (Spotted Joepyeweed) · E. maculatum 'Bartered Bride' (Boneset) · E. maculatum 'Carin' (Spotted Joe Pye Weed) · E. maculatum'Little Joe' (Little Joe Dwarf Spotted Joe Pie Weed) · E. maculatum 'Purple Bush' (Spotted Joe Pye Weed) · E. mikanioides (Semaphore Thorough-Wort) · E. mohrii (Mohr's Thorough-Wort) · E. perfoliatum (Agueweed) · E. perfoliatum f. trifolium (Thoroughwort) · E. perfoliatum L. var. colpophilum Fern. & Grisc. (Common Boneset) · E. perfoliatum var. colpophilum (Common Boneset) · E. perfoliatum var. perfoliatum (Common Boneset) · E. pilosum (Rough Boneset) · E. pinnatifidum (Eupatorium) · E. purpureum (Sweet Joe Pye Weed) · E. purpureum maculatum (Green-Stem Joe-Pye-Weed) · E. purpureum maculatum 'Gateway' (Gateway Joe Pye Weed) · E. purpureum var. holzingeri (Holzinger's Eupatorium) · E. purpureum var. holzingeri (Rydb.) E.Lamont (Holzinger's Eupatorium) · E. purpureum var. purpureum (Sweet-Scented Joe-Pye Weed) · E. purpureum var. ternifolium (Green-Stem Joe-Pye-Weed) · E. purpureum 'Joe White' (Joe Pye Weed) · E. rebaudianum (Sweet Honey Leaf) · E. resinosum (Pine Barren Thoroughwort) · E. rotundifolium (Round-Leaf Thorough-Wort) · E. rotundifolium var. cordigerum (Roundleaf Thoroughwort) · E. rotundifolium var. ovatum (Roundleaf Thoroughwort) · E. rotundifolium var. rotundifolium (Roundleaf Thoroughwort) · E. rotundifolium var. scabridum (Roundleaf Thoroughwort) · E. rugosum album (Richweed) · E. rugosum 'Chocolate' (Chocolate White Snakeroot) · E. semiserratum (Small-Flower Thorough-Wort) · E. serotinum (Late Eupatorium) · E. sessilifolium (Upland Boneset) · E. sessilifolium L. var. brittonianum Porter (Upland Boneset) · E. sessilifolium L. var. sessilifolium L. (Upland Boneset) · E. sessilifolium L. var. vaseyi (Porter) Fern. & Grisc. (An Upland Boneset) · E. sessilifolium var. brittonianum (Upland Boneset) · E. sessilifolium var. sessilifolium (Upland Boneset) · E. sessilifolium var. vaseyi (Upland Boneset) · E. sordidum (Dirty Thoroughwort) · E. steelei (Steele's Eupatorium) · E. triplinerve (Yapana) · E. truncatum (Eupatorium) · E. variabile 'Variegatum' (Joe Pye Weed) · E. x pinnatifidum (Eupatorium) · E. x truncatum (Eupatorium)

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Notes

Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 24, 2007:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3875110
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-8177
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13748668
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:206119-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 454513
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 35979
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDAST3P0U0
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: EUHYL
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 38204

Footnotes

1. Kunsiri Chaw Siripun, Edward E. Schilling "Eupatorium". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 459, 461, 462, 470, 471. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 154.690 meters (507.513 feet), Standard Deviation = 169.690 based on 395 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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