Eupatorium lindleyanum

Eupatorium lindleyanum is an erect perennial herb of the daisy family (Asteraceae) growing to about 0.3-1.5 m tall, with stems that are densely covered in short white hairs and often tinged purple. The leaves are opposite, sessile, narrowly lanceolate, frequently divided into three narrow lobes or remaining undivided, with toothed margins, three prominent veins, and a roughly hairy surface. The small flower heads are pinkish-white to pale purple, lacking ray florets and grouped into dense flat-topped to corymbose clusters at the tops of the stems; flowering occurs in late summer and autumn. The fruit is a small five-angled achene topped by a pappus of fine bristles. Native and widely distributed across China, the Korean Peninsula, Japan, and parts of Southeast Asia, it grows in damp meadows, marshy ground, ditch banks, hillside grasslands, and along streams and roadsides at low to moderate elevations.