Eupatorium lindleyanum is a thoroughwort that grows in sunny marshes across East and Southeast Asia. Its flat-topped clusters of tiny white to pale pinkish-purple flowers resemble those of the bonesets familiar in the US. It doesn't grow wild in the US.
Appearance
- Growth form
- A perennial herb typically about 1½–3¼ ft (40–100 cm) tall that grows from a short .
- Leaves
- Opposite, nearly stalkless, narrow leaves 2½–5 in (6–12 cm) long with three prominent veins; some are deeply three-lobed.
- Flowers
- Many small heads, each with about five tubular flowers, in a flat-topped cluster. In its native range it blooms from mid to late summer into fall.
Where it lives
- Typical habitats
- Marshes
- Wet meadows
- Range
- Native to Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Siberia. Not found in the US.
- Preferred conditions
- Sunny, wet ground.
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