Eupatorium capillifolium (Lam.) Small ex Porter & BrittonFamily: Asteraceae
Synonyms: Artemisia capillifolia Lam., Artemisia tenuifolia Willd., Chrysocoma capillacea Michx., Chrysocoma capillacea Michaux, Eupatorium capillifolium var. capillifolium, Eupatorium foeniculaceum Willd. [Illegitimate], Eupatorium foeniculaceum var. foeniculaceum, Eupatorium foeniculaceum var. glabrum Torr. & A.Gray, Eupatorium foeniculaceum var. lateriflorum Torr. & A.Gray, Eupatorium foeniculaceum var. traganthes DC., Eupatorium foeniculoides Walter, Mikania artemisioides Cass., Traganthes tenuifolia Wallr.
Common name: dog fennel
Cuba: copal
Perennials, 50–200 cm. Stems (from short caudices) multiple, branched distally, puberulent throughout. Leaves opposite (proximal) or alternate (nodes often appearing leafy because of development of leaves on lateral buds without axis elongation); sessile; blades (often ternately lobed) or lobes linear, 5–100 × 0.2–0.5(–1) mm, bases ± cuneate, margins entire (strongly revolute), apices rounded to acute, faces glabrate, gland-dotted. Heads in dense, paniculiform arrays. Phyllaries 8–10 in 2–3 series, oblong, 0.5–2.5 × 0.2–0.5 mm, apices acuminate and mucronate, abaxial faces glabrous or glabrate, not or little, if at all, gland-dotted. Florets 5; corollas 2–2.5 mm. Cypselae 1–1.7 mm; pappi of 20–30 bristles 2–2.5 mm. 2n = 20.
Leaf extract applied against fungal infections on skin. (CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants)
18 Published articles of Eupatorium capillifolium