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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 5b -26.1 °C (-15 °F) to -23.3 °C (-10 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 10b
Plant Height: 36 - 84 inches
Plant Spread: 12 - 24 inches
Leaves: Malodorous
Fruiting Time: Fall
Late fall or early winter
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Fragrant
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Humidity tolerant
Drought tolerant
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Fruit is poisonous
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Sow in situ
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Tip
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Dog Fennel
  • Dogfennel

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Location: Opp, AL  Z8b
Date: 2018-06-23
Location: Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve at the Boyd tract Southern Pines, NC.
Date: September 23, 2022
Dog Fennel #171; RAB p. 1057, 179-34-5; AG p. 239, 55-5-?, " Dedi
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: May 16, 2022
Dog Fennel #171; RAB p. 1057, 179-34-5; AG p. 239, 55-5-?; LHB p.
Location: Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve at the Boyd tract Southern Pines, NC.
Date: September 23, 2022
Dog Fennel #171; RAB p. 1057, 179-34-5; AG p. 239, 55-5-?, " Dedi
Location: Lowndesboro AL
Date: 2015-05-13
Location: Opp, AL
Date: 2015-10-23
Location: Fountain, Florida
Date: 2011-10-30
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2018-08-04
Location: Beautiful Tennessee 
Date: Sept. 9, 2014
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-03-14
young plant in spring
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-03-14
hairy stems
Location: Hoffman, NC (Broad acre lake)
Date: September 2, 2022
Dog Fennel #171; RAB p. 1057, 179-34-5; AG p. 239, 55-5-?; LHB p.
Location: Opp, AL
Date: 2012-10-03
Location: Galt Preserve -  St. James,  Florida
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-03-17
fern like leaves
Location: Sumatera Indonesia
Date: 2018-01-07

Date: 2013-10-08
Location: Fountain, Florida
Date: 2011-10-30
Comments:
  • Posted by flaflwrgrl (North Fl. - Zone 8b) on May 6, 2012 5:35 PM concerning plant:
    An extremely fast growing plant most often found in cow pastures, disturbed land & along roadsides. It has a quite pungent odor when touched & the odor will stay on your clothing or skin until you wash. It is not an especially unpleasant odor but not a sweet scent either.
    CAUTION: This volunteers freely & most people consider this a highly invasive plant. It grows very aggressively.
    It can be very pretty & graceful to look at with it's fine foliage.
    When growing in cow pastures the cows eat around this plant because it contains liver-damaging pyrrolizidine alkaloids. This is why the scarlet bodied wasp moth, Cosmosoma myrodora, feed on Dogfennel; they store the toxins in it & that helps them ward off prey.
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