Hammock Snakeroot

Perennials, 40–80(–100) cm. Stems erect, lax, minutely pilose. Leaves opposite; petioles 7–15(–22) mm; blades narrowly deltate to rhombic, 2–6(–7) × 1.5–4 cm, (usually subcoriaceous) bases usually cuneate, sometimes truncate to slightly subcordate, margins usually coarsely serrate or incised, sometimes crenate to subentire, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous or hairy on veins. Heads clustered. Peduncles 2–10 mm, sparsely puberulent. Involucres 2.5–4 mm. Phyllaries: apices acute, abaxial faces puberulent to villous-puberulent. Corollas white, lobes glabrous or sparsely short-hirtellous. Cypselae usually finely hirtellous-strigose on distal ¹/3, sometimes glabrous. 2n = 34.

Eupatorium jucundum Greene, Pittonia 3: 180. 1897, based on E. aromaticum Linnaeus var. incisum A. Gray in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(2): 101. 1884, not E. incisum Richard 1792

Ageratina jucunda, called the Hammock snakeroot, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in the southeastern United States, in the states of Georgia and Florida.