Mist flower
Ageratina riparia
-3.17595, 118.74
Field Notes
Description:
Mistflower is a low growing, sprawling perennial herb that grows up to 40x60 cm high. Its stems produce roots at joints that touch the ground. The serrated leaves on average reach 7.5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide and taper at each end. The flowers are white with dense heads at the ends of the branches. Mistflower buds from July until August, with full flowering occurring from August through October. Seeds are black, slender, angular, 2 mm long, with fine white hairs at the tip. They are dispersed by wind and flowing water. Mistflower is maybe poisonous for mammals to eat.
Habitat:
Mistflower (Ageratina riparia) is generally found growing in wetter (i.e. humid) sub-tropical and tropical regions. Within such regions it is a weed of damp areas such as gullies, creek banks, waterways, roadsides, disturbed sites, pastures, native bushland, rainforest clearings and the margins of closed forests.
Notes:
Synonim name: Eupatorium cannabinum L. (misapplied), Eupatorium riparium Regel
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