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==Description==  
 
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Common name is hammock snakeroot.
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Common names: Hammock snakeroot; Small leaf Thoroughwort
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Synonym names: ''Eupatorium jucundum'' Greene
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Is a perennial (Hall 1993). Is common in all of Florida; flowers from fall to winter (Hall 1993).
  
 
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Revision as of 11:57, 29 June 2015

Ageratina jucunda
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae
Genus: Ageratina
Species: A. jucunda
Binomial name
Ageratina jucunda
(Greene) Clewell & Woot.
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Natural range of Ageratina jucunda from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Description

Common names: Hammock snakeroot; Small leaf Thoroughwort

Synonym names: Eupatorium jucundum Greene

Is a perennial (Hall 1993). Is common in all of Florida; flowers from fall to winter (Hall 1993).

Distribution

Ageratina jucunda is endemic to the southeastern United States, only known to occur in Florida and a few counties in Georgia. [1]

Ecology

Habitat

Sand pine scrub, longleafpine-turkey oak sand ridges, pine-palmetto, live-oak woods, hammocks, dunes, roadsides, old fields, stream banks, dry flatwoods.[2] It is xeric to dry-mesic habitats, including sand pine scrub, longleaf pine-turkey oak. It can also occur along roadsides, in abandoned fields where such habitats used to occur. Ageratina jucunda becomes threatened by habitat loss and fire suppression.[1]

Phenology

It is perennial. [3][2]

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

Fire ecology

Long-term fire management important for survival. [1]

Pollination

Use by animals

Stephanie Sanchez observed a Malachite butterfly feeding on a snakeroot flower.[4]

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Natureserve http://www.natureserve.org/, accessed 15 May 2015.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Flora of North America http://floranorthamerica.org/, accessed 15 May 2015.
  3. USDA NRCS National Plant Data team http://plants.usda.gov/java/,accessed 15 May 2015.
  4. http://butterflies.heuristron.net/plants/ageratinaJucunda.html, accessed 15 May 2015).