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Ageratum conyzoides (Billygoat-weed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ageratum conyzoides (billygoat-weed, chick weed, goatweed, whiteweed) is native to Tropical America, especially Brazil, and considered an invasive weed in many other regions. Herb 0.5–1 m. high, with ovate leaves 2–6 cm long, and flowers are white to mauve. In Vietnamese, the plant is called cứt lợn (meaning "pig feces") due to its growth in dirty areas.
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Invasive Species

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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue
Flower Color [2]  Violet
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [4]  Annual
Pollinators [4]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [4]  The fresh plant is malodorous.
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [4]  The leaves and the flowers yield 0.2% essential oil with a powerful nauseating odour; The oil contains 5% eugenol, which has a pleasant odour; The oil from plants growing in Africa has an agreeable odour, consisting almost entirely of eugenol;
Height [4]  39 inches (1 m)
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Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Toxomerus crockeri[8]

External References

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Species of Frankliniella Trybom (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from the Asian-Pacific Area, Chin-Ling Wang, Feng-Chyi Lin, Yi-Chung Chiu, and Hsien-Tzung Shih, Zoological Studies 49(6): 824-838 (2010)
♦ 7Food Habits of the Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle, Ocadia sinensis, in the Keeling River, Northern Taiwan, Tien-Hsi Chen and Kuang-Yang Lue, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 463-471, 1999
♦ 8Flower-visiting insects of the Galapagos Islands, McCullen, C. K. 1993. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 69:95-106
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0