Wild Quinine
Parthenium integrifolium
Asteraceae
Other names
American Feverfew, Missouri Snake Root, Prarie Dock
Growth habit
Herbaceous
Perennation
Long-lived polycarpic perennial
Native distribution
Eastern North America
Biocultural value
Indigenous people used a medicinal tea brewed with the leaves and flowers to lower fevers by inducing perspiration.
Location
Houston and Grossman Ponds, Robison Herb Garden
Source of plant
Seneca Hill Perennials, Ambergate Gardens, Prairie Moon Nursery
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.
USDA Hardiness Zone
3
Special characteristics
medicinal/pharmaceutical