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White-Bracted Thoroughwort (Eupatorium leucolepis)
Image ID: 2012/ph26
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Other common names: Justiceweed
Native
Family:
Asteraceae (Sunflower)
Height: 1 to 3 ft.
Blooms: July to
October
Leaf Type:
toothed
Bloom Size: 0.125 in. (typical)
Flower Description:
Flat or rounded clusters,
Regular blooms, 5 parts
Location: Panhandle Trail
Date: 8/11/2012
Notes:
The strange bug is Ailanthus Webworm Moth.
More photos of this flower
White-Bracted Thoroughwort may be
easily confused with:
- Boneset
Boneset's paired leaves are fused around the plant stem in a very distinctive manner.
- Sweet Joe-Pye Weed
Joe-Pye weed is normally pink, though rarely white. Thoroughword flowers grow in a flat cluster, while Joe-Pye weed had a large, domed cluster of flowers.
- Upland Boneset
White-bracted thoroughwort has 3 prominent veins running the length of the leaf.
- White Snakeroot
White snakeroot as a broad, nearly heart-shaped leaf, while white thoroughwort has a more lance-shaped leaf.
We started out as wildflowers from the bicycle trails of western Pennsylvania, but we've
grown!
Meyer, Joseph E. (1918). The Herbalist and Herb Doctor. Hammond, Ind.: Indiana Herb Gardens. 400 pp.
