Eutrochium dubium
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Eutrochium |
| Species: | E. dubium
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| Eutrochium dubium | |
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Eutrochium dubium,[2] also called coastal plain joe pye weed, is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family. It is native to the eastern United States and Canada, primarily the Atlantic coastal plain from Georgia to Nova Scotia.[3]
Eutrochium dubium is a herbaceous perennial plant herb sometimes as much as 170 cm (68 inches or 5 2/3 feet) tall. Stems are sometimes purple, sometimes green with purple spots. The plant produces numerous flower heads in flat-topped arrays, each head has 4-10 dark purple (rarely pink or white) disc florets but no ray florets.[4]
References
- ^ "Eutrochium dubium (Willd. ex Poir.) E.E. Lamont". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- ^ "Eutrochium dubium". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ^ "Eutrochium dubium". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
- ^ Lamont, Eric E. (2006). "Eutrochium dubium". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 21. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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