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Lucy Braun's snakeroot

Ageratina luciae-brauniae

Also called Lucy Braun's Eupatorium

Lucy Braun's snakeroot
Photo: James Steakley, CC BY-SA 3.0

Lucy Braun's snakeroot is a rare perennial wildflower native to the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky and Tennessee, found in damp sandstone rock shelters. It is not a common garden or houseplant, and it needs cool, moist, shaded conditions.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Shade, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist but not soggy, similar to the drip-fed rock shelters it grows in.
Soil
Moist, sandy, well-drained humus-rich mix.
Temperature
10–24 °C; protect from heat and drought
How easy
Hard
Native range
Kentucky to Tennessee

About

Ageratina luciae-brauniae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names Lucy Braun's snakeroot and rockhouse white snakeroot. It is native to the eastern United States, where it is limited to the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky and Tennessee. It may also occur in South Carolina but these reports are unconfirmed.

This perennial herb grows 30 to 60 centimeters tall. It has oppositely arranged leaves with thin oval or somewhat triangular blades up to 8 centimeters long by 9 wide. The inflorescence is a cluster of flower heads containing white disc florets and no ray florets.

Other Ageratina plants

Sticky snakeroot · White snakeroot · Lesser snakeroot · Ageratina concordiana · Ageratina crassiramea · Ageratina cuencana · Ageratina glabrata · Ageratina gracilis · Havana snakeroot · Fragrant snakeroot · Hammock snakeroot · Lemmon's snakeroot

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ageratina luciae-brauniae by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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.

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