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Ageratina sodiroi

Ageratina sodiroi is a small shrub or sub-shrub from the Andes of Ecuador, in the daisy family. Little is documented about its cultivation, so treat it as a wild-collected or specialist plant rather than a common garden subject.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil are dry, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich mix with some grit.
Temperature
10–24 °C; protect below 5 °C, as it comes from high-altitude Andean conditions.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Ecuador

About

Ageratina sodiroi is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Ecuador, where it is widely distributed in the Andes.

This plant grows as an herb, sub-shrub, or shrub. It grows in forests and upper Andean vegetation types up to 3500 meters in altitude.

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 sodiroi 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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