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Ageratina herbacea
Also called Desert Ageratina, Desert Snakeroot, Herbaceous Joepyeweed
Ageratina herbacea is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common names fragrant snakeroot and Apache snakeroot. It is native to desert regions (Sonoran, Mojave, and Chihuahuan Deserts) of the southwestern United States (southeastern California, southern Nevada, southern Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas) and northern Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora). It grows in rocky slopes in conifer forests and woodlands.
Ageratina herbacea is a perennial herb growing a green, fuzzy stem from a woody caudex to heights between about 50 and 70 centimeters. The leaves are yellow to green or grayish and are triangular to heart-shaped. The inflorescence is a cluster of fuzzy flower heads under a centimeter long containing long, protruding white disc florets and no ray florets.
Sticky snakeroot · White snakeroot · Lesser snakeroot · Ageratina concordiana · Ageratina crassiramea · Ageratina cuencana · Ageratina glabrata · Ageratina gracilis · Havana snakeroot · Hammock snakeroot · Lemmon's snakeroot · Privet Leaved Agertina
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ageratina herbacea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
