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Ageratum houstonianum

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Family Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Ageratum houstonianum Mill.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ageratum houstonianum Mill. f. houstonianum (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ageratum mexicana Sweet (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ageratum mexicanum Sweet (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (17), Kubiak_2009 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (14), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 50 records in 9 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): black (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 50 mm (20-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 2.25 cm (0.5-5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): deltate (1); ovate (2); triangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); rounded (1); truncate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): toothed (1); toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (2); short_lived_perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.65 m (0.3-1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231317Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_20231014N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wright_200033I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Kubiak_200922P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.