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Support the Flora of the Southeastern US

2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
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Key to Eupatorium, Key A: leaves pinnatifid or pinnate into linear or capillary segments (Dog-fennels)

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1 Leaf segments 2-10 mm wide; larger leaves with 5-11 segments
1 Leaf segments 0.1-5 mm wide; larger leaves with 13+ segments.
  2 Stem glabrous throughout, or short-pubescent in the lower portion only; inflorescence paniculate, the panicle branches recurved, the heads secundly arranged
  2 Stem pubescent throughout, generally conspicuously so; inflorescence paniculate, the branches not recurved, the heads not secund.
    3 Leaves bright green, glabrous, sparsely glandular-punctate, segments of the basal leaves 1-1.5 mm wide, segments of the upper leaves 0.2-0.5 mm wide
    3 Leaves grayish-green, pubescent, densely glandular-punctate, segments of the basal leaves 2-5 mm wide, segments of the upper leaves 1-2.5 mm wide