EPPO Global Database

Ageratum houstonianum(AGEHO)

Overview
Code created in: 2002-02-01

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: AGEHO
  • Preferred name: Ageratum houstonianum
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) Miller

Notes

Mexico, Central America. Cultivated as an ornamental. Introduced in Europe, Macaronesia, Caucasus, Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Western Asia (Pakistan), Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Indochina (Myanmar, Vietnam), Malesia (Sumatra, Java, Philippines), China (including Taiwan), Korea, Sahel, South Africa, USA (southern), Caribbean, Venezuela to Bolivia, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Ageratum mexicanum Sims

Common names
Name Language
blue billy-goat weed English
blue billygoat weed English (AU)
blue maudlin English
blue-top goatweed English
flossflower English
large-flower ageratum English (US)
Mexican ageratum English
Leberbalsam German
mexikanischer Leberbalsam German
Mexiko-Leberbalsam German
agérate bleu French
agérate du Mexique French
eupatoire bleue French
agerato Spanish
agerato celestino Spanish
damasquino Spanish
agerato celestino Italian
leverbalsem Dutch
mexicaantje Dutch
agerato Portuguese
celestina Portuguese
ageratsumu Japanese
katsukô-azami Japanese
murasaki-kakko-azami Japanese
ô-kakko-azami Japanese
アゲラツム Japanese
オオカッコウアザミ Japanese
カッコウアザミ Japanese
カツコウアザミ Japanese
ムラサキカッコウアザミ Japanese
агератум мексиканский Russian
агератум Хоустона Russian
ageratum meksykańskie Polish
żeniszek meksykański Polish
bojtocska Hungarian
агератум Bulgarian
xióng ěr cǎo Chinese
熊耳草 Chinese
meksička plavuša Croatian
nestařec americký Czech
raktarodhi Hindi
불로화 Korean
bul ro hwa Korean
nilima Sanskrit
agerát mexický Slovak
агератум гаустона Ukrainian