Eupatorium serotinum

Eupatorium serotinum
Conservation status

Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Eupatorieae
Genus: Eupatorium
Species: E. serotinum
Binomial name
Eupatorium serotinum
Michx.

Eupatorium serotinum, also known as late boneset or late thoroughwort, is a fall-blooming herbaceous plant native to North America.[2] Like other members of the genus Eupatorium, it is about one to two meters tall and has inflorescences containing a large number of white flowers with disc florets and no ray florets.[3]

It ranges throughout most of the eastern United States, as far south as Mexico (near the Texas border),[4] as far north as the United States–Canadian border, and as far west as Nebraska and Texas.[2]

It grows in open sites (either dry or moist), and can hybridize with Eupatorium perfoliatum[2] and other members of the genus Eupatorium. Unlike wind-pollinated plants in this genus, E. serotinum is pollinated by insects.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Eupatorium serotinum". NatureServe Explorer. NatureServe. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Eupatorium serotinum". Flora of North America.
  3. ↑ "Eupatorium". Flora of North America.
  4. ↑ Schmidt, Gregory J. & Schilling, Edward E. (2000). "Phylogeny and biogeography of Eupatorium (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) based on nuclear ITS sequence data". American Journal of Botany 87 (5): 716–726. doi:10.2307/2656858. JSTOR 2656858. PMID 10811796.
  5. ↑ Victoria I. Sullivan, Joseph Neigel and Bomao Miao (May 1991). "Bias in Inheritance of Chloroplast DNA and Mechanisms of Hybridization between Wind- And Insect-Pollinated Eupatorium (Asteraceae)". American Journal of Botany 78 (5): 695–705. doi:10.2307/2445090. JSTOR 2445090.

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