Ageratina_rothrockii

<i>Ageratina rothrockii</i>

Ageratina rothrockii

Species of flowering plant

Ageratina rothrockii (Rothrock's snakeroot)[3] is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in the southwestern United States in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as the states of Sonora, Coahuila, Chihuahua, and Durango in Mexico.[4][5]

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Etymology

Ageratina is derived from Greek meaning 'un-aging', in reference to the flowers keeping their color for a long time. This name was used by Dioscorides for a number of different plants.[6]

The species is named for American botanist and forester Joseph Rothrock, 1839–1922.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "NatureServe Explorer - Ageratina rothrockii". NatureServe Explorer Ageratina rothrockii. NatureServe. 2022-06-22. Retrieved 22 Jun 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Ageratina rothrockii (A.Gray) R.M.King & H.Rob.". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
  3. [3]
    USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Ageratina rothrockii". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  4. [4]
    Nesom, Guy L. (2006). "Ageratina rothrockii". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 21. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  5. [5]
    "Ageratina rothrockii". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
  6. [6]
    Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521866453 (hardback), ISBN 9780521685535 (paperback). pp 39
  7. [7]
    Gray, Asa 1884. Synoptical Flora of North America 1(2): 102 as Eupatorium rothrockii

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