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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Asteraceae
Parthenium integrifolium L.
American feverfew, eastern feverfew, eastern parthenium, wild quinine
Parthenium: Greek parthenos for "virgin" referring to infertile disk flowers
integrifolium: Latin for "entire-leaved"
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| Status: | Threatened |
| Plant: | robust, erect, perennial, 20"-40" tall, aromatic forb usually with no branches |
| Flower: | head white, 1/4" wide with a few rays and a prominent disk; inflorescence of many heads in dense, flat-topped clusters; blooms July-Sept. |
| Fruit: | black, dry seed without a fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | alternate, large, toothed; lower on long stalks, upper smaller and stalkless to clasping |
| Habitat: | full sun; dry to moist; prairies, woods; in sandy, loamy soil |
| Notes: | often planted north of its natural range |
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