Eutrochium
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| Genus: | Eutrochium Rafinesque
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E. dubium | |
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Eupatoriadelphus | |
Eutrochium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in Asteraceae. They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds. They are native to Eastern North America and have non-dissected foliage and pigmented flowers. It includes all the purple flowering North American species of the genus Eupatorium as traditionally defined.[1] Eupatorium has recently undergone some revision and has been broken up into smaller genera.[2] Eutrochium is the senior synonym of Eupatoriadelphus.[3] Eupatorium in the revised sense (about 42 species of white-flowered plants from the temperate Northern hemisphere) is apparently a close relative of Eutrochium. Another difference between Eutrochium and Eupatorium is that the former has mostly whorled leaves and the latter mostly opposite ones.[4][5] Eupatorium and Eutrochium are both placed in the subtribe Eupatoriinae, but South American plants which have sometimes been placed in that subtribe, such as Stomatanthes, seem to belong elsewhere in the tribe Eupatorieae.[6]
The taxa that belong to Eutrochium are:[7]
- Eutrochium dubium (Willdenow ex Poiret) E. E. Lamont – Coastal Plain Joe-Pye Weed
- Eutrochium fistulosum (Barratt) E. E. Lamont – Hollow Joe-Pye Weed
- Eutrochium maculatum (Linnaeus) E. E. Lamont – Spotted Joe-Pye Weed[1]
- Eutrochium maculatum var. bruneri (A. Gray) E. E. Lamont
- Eutrochium maculatum var. foliosum (Fernald) E. E. Lamont
- Eutrochium maculatum var. maculatum
- Eutrochium purpureum (Linnaeus) E. E. Lamont – Sweet Joe-Pye Weed, Green-stemmed Joe-Pye Weed, Queen of the Meadow, Gravel Root, Kidney Root, Purple Boneset
- Eutrochium purpureum var. holzingeri (Rydberg) E. E. Lamont
- Eutrochium purpureum var. purpureum
- Eutrochium steelei (E. E. Lamont) E. E. Lamont
Medicinal uses
Joe Pye, an Indian healer from New England, used E. purpureum to treat a variety of ailments, which led to the name Joe-Pye weed for these plants.[8]
Footnotes
- ^ Siripun & Schilling (2006)
- ^ Ito et al. (2000), Schmidt & Schilling (2006)
- ^ Lamont (2004, 2006)
- ^ 393. Eutrochium Rafinesque, Flora of North America
- ^ 392. Eupatorium Linnaeus, Flora of North America
- ^ Schmidt & Schilling (2006)
- ^ Lamont (2006)
- ^ Blanchan, Neltje (2005). Wild Flowers Worth Knowing. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
References
- Ito, Motomi; Watanabe, Kuniaki; Kita, Yoko; Kawahara, Takayuki; Crawford, D.J. & Yahara, Tetsukazu (2000): Phylogeny and Phytogeography of Eupatorium (Eupatorieae, Asteraceae): Insights from Sequence Data of the nrDNA ITS Regions and cpDNA RFLP. Journal of Plant Research 113(1): 79-89. doi:10.1007/PL00013913 (HTML abstract)
- Lamont, Eric E. (2004): New combinations in Eutrochium, an earlier name for Eupatoriadelphus. Sida 21: 901-902.
- Lamont, Eric E. (2006): 393. Eutrochium Rafinesque. In: Flora of North America North of Mexico, Vol. 21 (Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 8: Asteraceae, part 3): 461-462, 474-475. ISBN 0-19-530565-4
- 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
- Siripun, Kunsiri Chaw & Schilling, Edward E. (2006): Molecular confirmation of the hybrid origin of Eupatorium godfreyanum (Asteraceae). Am. J. Bot. 93(2): 319-325. PDf fulltext
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