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Key to Eupatorium

Asteraceae

Eupatorium

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(c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG
(c) Kinser, Abel - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG
1 Leaves generally in whorls of 3-7 (very rarely all of them opposite), most of them > 2 cm wide; involucre 6.5-9 mm high, the flowers pale pink to purple
1 Leaves generally opposite, sometimes in whorls of 3-4 (if so the leaves usually < 2 cm wide), or some of them alternate; involucre mostly 2-6 mm high, the flowers mostly white, rarely blue (rarely the involucre 6-11 mm high, then the flowers white).
  2 Leaves pinnate or pinnatifid, divided into linear or capillary segments, these 0-5 mm wide (or to 10 mm wide in Eupatorium ×pinnatifidum)
  2 Leaves simple or palmately 3 (-5)-lobed (if palmately lobed, the leaves or lobes > 5 mm wide).
    3 Leaves simple.
© Scott Ward
      4 Leaves long-petiolate, the petioles of larger leaves > 10 mm long.
© Scott Ward
        5 Leaf blades deltate or rhombic, held vertically; [of FL]
(c) Campos, Aidan
      4 Leaves sessile or short-petiolate, the petioles < 9 mm long.
               8 Leaves uniformly truncate, usually uniformly coarsely serrate, widest within the lower quarter
               8 Leaves truncate to cuneate (at least at top of stem), usually finely serrate on upper leaves, sometimes coarsely serrate on lower leaves, widest slightly below the middle