Fleischmannia incarnata, the pink slender-thoroughwort or pink thoroughwort, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the United States from Florida north as far as Virginia, Ohio, and Illinois, and west to Texas and Oklahoma. It is also found in northeastern Mexico (Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León).
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Pink thoroughwort being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Fleischmannia sonorae
- Fleischmannia prasiifolia
- Tamaulipa azurea
- Ageratina havanensis
- Fleischmannia pycnocephala
- Ageratina jucunda
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Fleischmannia
- Species
- Fleischmannia incarnata
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