Taxon: Parthenium hysterophorus L.
Genus: Parthenium
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 315278
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:988. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: species epithet published as a noun in apposition and retains its own gender and termination irrespective of the gender of the generic name (Vienna ICBN Art. 23.5) Name verified on: 18-Mar-2012 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-Mar-2012
Species priority site is: National Arid Land Plant Genetic Resources Unit (PARL). Accessions:
2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
SPECIES RESTRICTED AS A STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
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CA*, PR*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
|
- Link to noxious weed information from

- bitterweed (Source: Noxweed Aust
) – English
- carrot-grass (Source: Noxweed Aust
) – English
- false ragweed (Source: Noxweed Aust
) – English
- feverfew (Source: Noxweed Aust
) – English
- parthenium-weed (Source: Econ Pl Aust
) – English
- ragweed parthenium (Source: Noxweed Aust
) – English
- Santa Maria (Source: F NC Tex
) – English
- Santa Maria feverfew (Source: F Florida
) – English
- whitetop (Source: Noxweed Aust
) – English
- yin jiao ju (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- coentro-do-mato (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- losna-branca (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cicutilla (Source: F Tex
) – Spanish
- escoba amarga (Source: Noxweed Aust
) – Spanish
- flikpartenium (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
Native:
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Federal District, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Bahamas; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.) Mesoamerica: Belize; Guatemala; Honduras Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela Brazil: Brazil Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador - Loja Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia East Tropical Africa: Kenya South Tropical Africa: Mozambique Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga; Swaziland Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Mayotte; Reunion; Seychelles
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
- PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia; Vanuatu
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Panama
Adventive:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Israel
- EUROPE
Middle Europe: Belgium; Poland
Other: - exact native range in Americas obscure
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong.
2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Balick, M. J. et al.
2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
- Bosser, J. M. et al., eds.
1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
- Breedlove, D. E., ed.
1981–. Flora of Chiapas.
- Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston.
1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
- Diggs, G. M., Jr. et al.
1999. Shinner's and Mahler's illustrated flora of North Central Texas.
- Euro+Med Editorial Committee.
Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Funk, V. et al.
2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
- Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds.
2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
- Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
- Henderson, L.
2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
- Hokche, O. et al.
2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
- Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.
Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
- Instituto de Botánica Darwinion.
2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
- Iwatsuki, K. et al.
1993–. Flora of Japan.
- Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds.
1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
- Kohli, R. K. & D. Rani.
1996. Parthenium hysterophorus - a review.
Res. Bull. Panjab Univ. Sci.
44:105–149.
- Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann.
1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants.
[poisonous].
- Lasser, T., ed.
1964–. Flora de Venezuela.
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
- McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association).
1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
- McVaugh, R.
1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
- Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson.
1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
- Press, J. R. et al.
2000–. Annotated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal (on-line resource).
- Rollins, R. C.
1950. The guayule rubber plant and its relatives.
Contr. Gray Herb.
172:52.
- Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds.
1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
- Sharma, B. D. et al., eds.
1993–. Flora of India.
- Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
- Steyermark, J. A.
1977. Flora of Missouri.
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
- Vibrans, H., ed.
Malezas de México (on-line resource).
- Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds.
1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
- Wunderlin, R. P.
1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.
- More:
Check other web resources for Parthenium hysterophorus L.:
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
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