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White thoroughwort

Eupatorium album

White thoroughwort
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0

White thoroughwort is a native North American perennial herb in the daisy family, growing 50 to 100 cm tall and bearing clusters of small white flower heads from late June to October. It is a native wildflower of the eastern and southern United States, best grown in open woodland edges or meadows.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Moist to average, well-drained garden soil.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate climates; tolerates winter cold of USDA zones roughly 5 to 9.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Pennsylvania to SE. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Eupatorium album, the white thoroughwort or snowy white eupatorium, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the family Asteraceae native from the eastern and southern United States, from eastern Texas to Connecticut, inland as far as Indiana.

As with other members of the genus Eupatorium, Eupatorium album flowers with large numbers of small white heads. The flower heads have 4-5 disc florets each, but no ray florets. It flowers from late June to October. The plant grows 50–100 cm (20–39 in) tall, making it one of the shorter Eupatorium species.

Other Eupatorium plants

Tall thoroughwort · Eupatorium amabile · Florida thoroughwort · Eupatorium benguetense · Eupatorium camiguinense · Hemp-agrimony · Dogfennel · Eupatorium chinense · Yankeeweed · Ground Qalanis · Chinese Eupatorium · Godfrey's thoroughwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eupatorium album 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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