Asteraceae

Ageratum L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 839 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & Subtropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Arizona, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Texas, Venezuela

Introduced into:

Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Assam, Azores, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Brazil South, Bulgaria, Burkina, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, Chagos Archipelago, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Congo, Connecticut, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, French Guiana, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Hungary, India, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kentucky, Kenya, Korea, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Madagascar, Madeira, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New York, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Society Is., Socotra, South Carolina, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Turkmenistan, Turks-Caicos Is., Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 3: 300.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by R.M. Polhill & D. Wiens [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Bremer et al. in Asterac., Clad. & Class.: 649 (1994)
  • M.F. Johnson in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58(1): 6 (1971)
  • R.M. King & H. Rob., Genera of the Eupatorieae: 142 (1987)
  • Sp. Pl.: 839 (1753)
  • V.S. Sharma in F.R. 98: 557 (1987)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0