Summary ²

Eupatorium lancifolium, commonly called Lanceleaf thoroughwort, is a North American herbaceous perennial plant in the sunflower family native to the south-central United States (Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas).

Description ³

Perennials, 40–100+ cm. Stems (from short rhizomes) single, branched distally, usually glabrous or glabrate, sometimes pilose. Leaves usually opposite (distal sometimes alternate); sessile or subsessile (petioles to 5 mm); blades 3-nerved from bases, lanceolate to lance-linear, 30–50 × 5–13 mm, bases narrowly cuneate, margins serrate, apices acute, faces glabrous adaxially, sparsely pilose abaxially, densely gland-dotted. Heads in corymbiform arrays. Phyllaries 7–10 in 2–3 series, elliptic, 1–4.5 × 0.2–0.8 mm, apices rounded, abaxial faces pilose, gland-dotted. Florets 5; corollas 2.5–3 mm. Cypselae 2.5–2.8 mm; pappi of 30–40 bristles 3.5–4 mm. 2n = 20.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Andy Newman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Andy Newman
2. Adapted by Amber Leung from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupatorium_lancifolium
3. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4956123

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