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Eupatorium cannabinum L.
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Public Records: 6
Specimens with Barcodes: 10
Species With Barcodes: 1
Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
Common and widespread: not threatened (3).
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This species is not threatened at present.
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Conservation action is not required for this common species.
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Eupatorium cannabinum, commonly known as Hemp-agrimony,[1] is a herbaceous plant of the family Asteraceae. It is a robust perennial native to many areas of Europe.[2] It is occasionally found as a garden escape in other areas such as British Columbia.[3]
If the genus Eupatorium is defined in a restricted sense (about 42 species), E. cannabinum is the only species of that genus native to Europe (with the remainder in Asia or North America).[4]
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Description[edit]
E. cannabinum grows to 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) tall or more and 1.2 meters (3.9 feet) wide.[2] It lives in moist low-lying areas in temperate Eurasia. It is dioecious, with racemes of mauve flowers which are pollinated by insects from July to early September. The flowers are tiny, fluffy and can be pale dusty pink or whitish.[2] The fruit is an achene about 2 or 3 mm long, borne by a pappus with hairs 3 to 5 mm long, which is distributed by the wind. The plant over-winters as a hemicryptophyte.
Toxicity[edit]
Eupatorium cannabinum contains tumorigenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids.[5]
Subspecies[edit]
- Eupatorium cannabinum L. subsp. cannabinum
- Eupatorium cannabinum L. subsp. corsicum (Req. ex Loisel.) P.Fourn.
References[edit]
- ^ "BSBI List 2007" (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ a b c "Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them", p 359. Könemann, 2004. ISBN 3-8331-1253-0
- ^ "Eupatorium cannabinum". Flora of North America.
- ^ Schmidt, Gregory J. & Schilling, Edward E. (2000): Phylogeny and biogeography of Eupatorium (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) based on nuclear ITS sequence data. Am. J. Bot. 87(5): 716-726. doi:10.2307/2656858 PMID 10811796 PDF fulltext
- ^ Fu, P.P., Yang, Y.C., Xia, Q., Chou, M.C., Cui, Y.Y., Lin G., "Pyrrolizidine alkaloids-tumorigenic components in Chinese herbal medicines and dietary supplements", Journal of Food and Drug Analysis, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2002, pp. 198-211 [1]
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Eupatorium cannabinum is a garden escape; it is native to Europe and may be established in British Columbia; it is only casually adventive elsewhere in the flora area.
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Hemp-agrimony is a perennial herb (3) that flowers in late summer and early autumn (6). The flowers are pollinated mainly by butterflies and moths, and to a lesser extent by bees and flies. Cross-pollination with flowers in the same flower head can also occur, however (2). In The compleat herbal of 1694, hemp-agrimony was listed as a cure for, amongst other things, catarrh and coughs, obstructions of the urine and jaundice (6).
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Comments: Exotic in North America (Kartesz, 1999).