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Asteraceae > Ageratina

White Snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) Ageratina altissima (White Snakeroot)
Watauga Co., NC
23 July 2006

Common statewide in moist forests in NC but becoming less common eastward.

White Snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) Ageratina altissima (White Snakeroot)
Watauga Co., NC
23 July 2006

Recent evidence supports splitting the genus Ageratina from Eupatorium. This species was formerly classified as Eupatorium rugosum.

White Snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) Ageratina altissima (White Snakeroot)
Watauga Co., NC
23 July 2006

Highly poisonous, this plant should never be eaten. Even drinking milk from cows that have eaten this plant can cause human sickness!


Lesser Snakeroot (Ageratina aromatica) Lesser Snakeroot (Ageratina aromatica)
Scotland Co., NC
1 Oct 2006

Statewide in NC, but common only in the coastal plain, Lesser Snakeroot was formerly classified as Eupatorium aromaticum.

Lesser Snakeroot (Ageratina aromatica) Lesser Snakeroot (Ageratina aromatica)
Scotland Co., NC
1 Oct 2006

Lesser Snakeroot (Ageratina aromatica) Lesser Snakeroot (Ageratina aromatica)
Scotland Co., NC
1 Oct 2006

Lesser Snakeroot (Ageratina aromatica) Lesser Snakeroot (Ageratina aromatica)
Scotland Co., NC
1 Oct 2006



Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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