Synonyms:

• (=) Ageratum mexicanum Sims

Common names:

• ageratum  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• blue billygoat-weed  (Source: Econ Pl Aust) - English
• bluemink  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• flossflower  (Source: F BritStace) - English
• Mexican ageratum  (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001) - English
• Mexikaanse ageratum  (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001) - Afrikaans
• ageratum du Mexique  (Source: UPOV) - French
• mexikanischer Leberbalsam  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• agérato  (Source: UPOV) - Spanish
• ageratum  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• zi hua huo xiang ji  (Source: F Taiwan) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed14)
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Atlas WWeed; Weeds SAfr 2001)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz]

Southern America

• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Honduras


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal [Madeira Islands]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Zaire
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Malawi, Zambia
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa, Swaziland
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar

Asia-Temperate

• CAUCASUS: Georgia
• CHINA: China [Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang]
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Nepal
• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
• INDO-CHINA: Myanmar, Thailand

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Northern America

• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Massachusetts]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji

Southern America

• CENTRAL AMERICA: Guatemala
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Suriname, Venezuela
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador, Peru

References:

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Images:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image