Scientific Name: Eupatorium cannabinum
Common Name: double hemp agrimony, boneset
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Mounded, Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Fragrance, Perennial border, Specimen plant, Wetland - bogs, Wildlife food
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Opposite, Heavily veined, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Tripinnate, Lanceolate, Incised, Serrate
Flowers: Head (capitulum), Pink, Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent)
Key ID Features:
Stems 30-150cm tall, leaves opposite, irregularly compounded, most tripinnate, leaflets lanceolate, 5-10cm long x 2-4cm wide, margin incised-serrate, fragrant; flower heads with 4-6 florets, each exposing a long, forked stigma, mauve-pink, in terminal corymb-like clusters.