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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Conoclinium coelestinum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Mistflower at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
See Wooten & Clewell (1971) for discussion and illustrations of Fleischmannia incarnata and Conoclinium coelestinum.
Take a close look: Each colorful floret is formed from five petals fused into a tubular corolla. The long female part of the floret extends above the tubular corolla. It has a stalk (the style) that extends up from the ovary and splits in two.... The pollen-producing male parts (the stamens) are shorter and surround the lower part of the female style. Continue reading at Southern Piedmont Natural History.
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Conoclinium coelestinum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Conoclinium coelestinum
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Conoclinium coelestinum
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-34-024:
Eupatorium coelestinum FAMILY Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Conoclinium coelestinum
COMMON NAME:
Mistflower, Wild Ageratum, Hardy Ageratum
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_euco6_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_c_coelestinum_6636
April Miami-Dade County FL
Everglades National Park
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_coelestinum_10_0_1
August Floyd County GA
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Gill Newberry gn09_e_ageratum
September
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Gill Newberry gn09_e_coelestinum
September
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JK Marlow jkm090905_005
September Pickens County SC
(Pollinator at work) Involucral bracts awl-shaped, purple-tipped, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm230922_5576
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm230922_5578
September Greenville County SC
Disk flowers blue-purple; heads discoid, numerous in terminal corymbs, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm230922_5580
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm230922_5581
September Greenville County SC
Each bell-shaped head, about 0.2" high, has 35-70 blue-purple disk flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow s081004_a
October Greenville County SC
Leaves are triangular, blunt-toothed, stalked, and opposite, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm0511c_17
November Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Pappus a tuft of whitish bristles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm151103_039
November Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm181111_5817
November Williamsburg County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Conoclinium coelestinum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Conoclinium coelestinum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Conoclinium coelestinum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Conoclinium coelestinum
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-34-024:
Eupatorium coelestinum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Conoclinium coelestinum
546
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Streambanks, moist to wet disturbed areas, especially ditches, probably more common than formerly, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Petioles 5-25mm long
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Bluish/Violet
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Lustrous black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p153
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p070
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p168
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p117
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p124
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p436
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p067
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p440
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p214
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p106
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p259
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p069
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p286
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p335
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p182
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p263
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