#ageratina

[terrariumtown]

I drew these character refs a while ago but um. shows you my these

[uxbridge]

First year snakeroot flowering

[faguscarolinensis]

Ageratina aromatica / Lesser Snakeroot at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 7 November 2021

Providing late season nectar means this Ageratina altissima 'Chocolate' (snakeroot, boneset) was proving popular with pollinators especially bees and butterflies. This herbaceous perennial has purple stems with dark chocolate-brown tinged leaves that have faded in the autumn. There are clusters of small white flowers during the summer and early autumn.

Jill Raggett

[cedar-glade]

Pearl’s fen, Greene co. OH

Nabalus racemosus 

Glaucous leaved hairy topped rattle snake root, 

A fen endemic in the southern states and a high PH boreal species in the north, you really only see these in areas of fens where calceric waterlogged gravel beds are with permiated marl like qualities

Symphyotrichum firmum

Smooth swamp aster, taken out of S. puniceum complex due to flower morphology, sparcely pubescent to glaberous stems and ploidy. 

two common ones, 

Verbesina alternifolia,

Alternate leaf mesic forest wingstem.

Ageratina altissima,

Tall snakeroot, tall milksickness weed,

The plant that cows eat that occasionally cause milk sickness and killed honest Abe’s mom, thanks @locallysourcedtrauma for the history lesson btw. 

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[dendroica]

White Snakeroot, Ageratina altissima (by me)

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 6 October 2020

The North American species Ageratina aromatica (lesser snakeroot, small-leaved white snakeroot, aromatic snakeroot, fragrant snakeroot, aromatic thoroughwort) is still providing an autumnal display. This herbaceous perennial plant produces a clump of erect, laxly-branched stems each with a flower.

Jill Raggett