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Ageratina havanensis (Kunth) R.M.King & H.Rob.

Havana snakeroot, Havana snakeroot, Mistflower, Shrubby boneset

Climate known 52 photographs
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Summary

Ageratina havanensis, the Havana snakeroot or white mistflower, is a species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae, native to the south-western United States (Texas), Cuba, and north-eastern and east-central Mexico. Unlike many other species of Ageratina, it is evergreen.

Text from Wikipedia, “Ageratina havanensis”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Ageratina

Ageratina, commonly known as snakeroot, is a genus of over 300 species of perennials and rounded shrubs in the family Asteraceae.

Text from Wikipedia, “Ageratina”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
(Kunth) R.M.King & H.Rob.
Native to
Texas, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf +4
Wild records
1422 in range· 432 open

At a glance

Warmest month
33°C
Aug, mean day; nights 23 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
863mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jun 112 mm (CHELSA)
Light
18–43DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to July and September to November in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 863 mm a year, wettest June at 112 mm, driest January at 48 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 43 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -4.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Bulbostylis deltoides Buckley; Eupatorium ageratifolium DC.; Eupatorium ageratifolium var. ageratifolium; Eupatorium ageratifolium var. domingense DC.; Eupatorium ageratifolium var. mexicanum DC. and 15 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to July and September to November in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (657 mm of 863 mm) takes 8 months, March to July and September to November. Mean temperature moves 17.9 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: September to January and March to May.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 863 mm a year, wettest June at 112 mm, driest January at 48 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

863 mm a year at the habitat, 657 mm of it March to July and September to November. Wettest month June at 112 mm, driest January at 48 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 554 mm to 1322 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 43 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 43 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 17, the highest 90th-percentile month 44).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -4.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -4.0 °C, the absolute minimum -15.7 °C, about 16 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 40.9 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 6.2 °C in January (across the envelope cells 4.0 °C to 14.7 °C), warmest day 33.3 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -4.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 60% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 17 °C in Jan to 33 °C in Aug; mean night from 6 °C in Jan to 23 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 863 mm of rain a year, most in Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 451 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -15.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 40.9 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-20°-10°10°20°30°40°50°frost40.9° 99th-percentile day (undated)-15.7° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250mm rainDLI 18–43RH 56–60 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 451 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C17 / 16–2319 / 18–2522 / 21–2726 / 25–2929 / 26–3032 / 26–3333 / 25–3433 / 25–3530 / 23–3126 / 22–2821 / 19–2517 / 16–23
Night °C6 / 4–158 / 6–1511 / 9–1615 / 12–1819 / 14–2122 / 15–2323 / 15–2423 / 15–2521 / 14–2216 / 12–1911 / 9–177 / 5–16
Rain mm48 / 22–5850 / 15–6364 / 13–8060 / 32–8396 / 58–130112 / 71–16973 / 53–13659 / 49–15783 / 72–203103 / 47–14766 / 14–8049 / 16–66
DLI20 / 19–2824 / 23–3330 / 29–3936 / 35–4338 / 37–4441 / 40–4343 / 40–4441 / 39–4134 / 33–3627 / 26–3221 / 20–2918 / 17–26
RH %58 / 54–6157 / 53–6157 / 51–6057 / 52–6060 / 56–6260 / 57–6458 / 55–6456 / 54–6457 / 56–6658 / 56–6558 / 55–6358 / 54–61

Each figure is the median across the 451 grid cells holding the 1281 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1196:1642 (30.175, -97.875). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -15.7 °C, 1st-percentile night -4.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 40.9 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 451 distinct grid cells holding the 1281 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1196:1642 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 30.00_-98.125, lapse-corrected -50 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 246 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTexas, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti
Map marker30.299, -97.789 · in the densest population, 1139 records (80% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1422 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 432 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. 14 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 141 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 1422 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Michelle W. (鍾偉瑋), some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Sam Kieschnick, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Cody Stricker, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Ageratina havanensis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

A second update to the checklist of the vascular flora alien to Italy
Gabriele Galasso, Fabio Conti, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Alessandro Alessandrini (2024) · Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology
Chromosomal Cytology and Evolution in Eupatorieae (Asteraceae)
Kuniaki Watanabe, Robert M. King, Tetsukazu Yahara, Motomi Itô (1995) · Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Seed dormancy in Asteraceae: a global vegetation zone and taxonomic/phylogenetic assessment
Carol C. Baskin, Jerry M. Baskin (2023) · Seed Science Research
The genus Eupatorium L. (Asteraceae): A review of their antimicrobial activity
Carlos Nogueira Sobrinho Antonio, Maia de Morais Selene, Bezerra de Souza Elnatan, Oliveira dos Santos Fontenelle Raquel (2017) · Journal of Medicinal Plants Research
Clasificación, estructura y diversidad del matorral submontanoadyacente a la planicie costera del GolfoNorte en el Noreste de México
Eduardo Estrada‐Castillón, José ́Ángel Villarreal-Quintanilla, Enrique Jurado, César Cantú-Ayala (2015) · Botanical Sciences
Antiviral activity of Ageratina havanensis and major chemical compounds from the most active fraction
Gloria del Barrio, Iraida Spengler, Trina H. García, Annele Roque (2011) · Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia
Establishment of a Cell Suspension Culture of Ageratina pichinchensis (Kunth) for the Improved Production of Anti-Inflammatory Compounds
Mariana Sánchez‒Ramos, Laura Álvarez, Antonio Romero-Estrada, Antonio Bernabé‐Antonio (2020) · Plants
Flora del centro del estado de Chihuahua, México
Eduardo Estrada‐Castillón, José ́Ángel Villarreal-Quintanilla (2010) · Acta Botanica Mexicana
La selva baja caducifolia en una corriente de lava volcánica en el centro de Veracruz: lista florística de la flor vascular
Gonzálo Castillo-Campos, Patricia Dávila-Aranda, José Alejandro Zavala‐Hurtado (2007) · Botanical Sciences
La familia Asteraceae en la Flora del Bajío y de regiones adyacentes
José Luís Villaseñor, Enrique Ortíz (2017) · Acta Botanica Mexicana
Establishment of a Cell Suspension Culture of Ageratina Pichinchensis for the Improved Production of Anti-inflammatory Compounds
Mariana Sánchez‒Ramos, Laura Álvarez, Antonio Romero-Estrada, Antonio Bernabé‐Antonio (2020) · Preprints.org

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Ageratina 1 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 49 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.