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Conuclinium greggii Syn. Eupatorium greggii
Description: The rayless flower heads are clustered at the stem tips and have light blue to purple disk flowers with similarly colored, long, threadlike stigmas. The leaves have a tapering leaf base and are green, minutely hairy, opposite, petiolate, egg-shaped to somewhat triangular, and deeply dissected or lobed with either pointed or rounded tips. The stems are erect to sprawling, green to brownish, and minutely hairy. The plants reproduce by seed or spread by underground rhizomes.
Habitat yard with plants chosen to attract wildlife.
When in bloom it is a butterfly magnet.
Spotted on Sep 4, 2012
Submitted on Sep 12, 2012
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