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Wild Florida Photo - Eupatorium compositifolium - Yankeeweed

Eupatorium compositifolium Walter

Yankeeweed
Coastal Dog Fennel

Florida native

Volusia Co. FL 11/30/-1
Volusia Co. FL 
Volusia Co. FL 

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A common herb of wet flatwoods, cypress domes, marshes and other wet disturbed sites in most of Florida north of Lake Okeechobee. Also found in Miami-Dade County. The range extends throughout the southeast states west into Texas and Oklahoma and north into Kentucky and Virginia.
Very similar to dogfennel, yankeeweed has divisions in the upper stem leaves that are more than 1mm wide. Growing from 0.5-2m (20 to 80 in.) tall with branching inflorescences of small white flower heads lacking ray florets and each head containing five small disk florets, sometimes with purple throats.


Eupatorium compositifolium is a member of the Asteraceae - Aster family.


Other species of the Eupatorium genus in the Wild Florida Photo database:
  Eupatorium album - WHITE THOROUGHWORT
  Eupatorium capillifolium - DOGFENNEL
  Eupatorium mohrii - MOHR'S THOROUGHWORT
  Eupatorium rotundifolium - ROUNDLEAF THOROUGHWORT
  Eupatorium serotinum - LATEFLOWERING THOROUGHWORT


Date record last modified: Sep 11, 2024


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