Eupatorium greggii Caucasus Mountains boasting a solitary leaf with

boasting a solitary leaf with 7-13 leaflets that sits atop a 15" tall green petiole (stalk)

the kind someone would need if they tried to harvest the roots of my plant

It also is good cut flower

the old seed stalks turn upward

Each flower has 6 petals: 3 large blue-lavender ones and 3 smaller tricolor ones of white

Eupatorium greggii Caucasus Mountains boasting a solitary leaf with(aka: Conoclinium greggii) Eupatorium greggii is an amazing, heat loving Southwest US native (Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) that should be grown in every garden from Zone 7 south and in containers from Zone 7 north. Resembling a rhizomatous perennial ageratum, Eupatorium greggii begins to flower in July and continues into December. The 2' tall, spreading patch (3' wide in 3 years) of cut leaf light green foliage is literally smothered in fall with