Wild Quinine

Parthenium integrifolium

Asteraceae

Growth Habit

Herbaceous

Description

Perennial herb, 0.5-1m, simple or branched above. Leaves to 20x10cm, lanceolate-elliptic to broadly ovate, crenulate-serrate or sublyrate at base. Capitula to 10mm diameter, several, in a broad, flat-topped corymb. E US to Wisconsin & Arkansas.

Source of plant

Seneca Hill Perennials, Ambergate Gardens, Prairie Moon Nursery

USDA Hardiness Zone

3

Special characteristics

medicinal/pharmaceutical