General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 4 to 5 feet
Plant Spread: 5 to 6 feet
Fruit: Other: the dry fruit makes a nice indoor decoration and winter interest
Fruiting Time: Fall
Late fall or early winter
Winter
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Dried Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Pollinators: Wasps
Moths and Butterflies
Bees
Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

Image
Common names
  • Wild Quinine
  • American fever-few
  • American Feverfew
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Parthenium integrifolium
  • Synonym: Parthenium hispidum

Photo Gallery
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-08-01
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2021-07-02
plant in bloom
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2019-12-14

Courtesy Avant Gardens
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Georgia Perimeter College Botanical Garden in Decatur, GA (USA)
Date: Summer
Location: Georgia Perimeter College Botanical Garden in Decatur, GA (USA)
Date: Summer
Location: Georgia Perimeter College Botanical Garden in Decatur, GA (USA)
Date: Summer
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2018-05-25

Photo Courtesy of Prairie Nursery. Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-07-14
Location: Georgia Perimeter College Botanical Garden in Decatur, GA (USA)
Date: Summer
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2018-03-23

Credit NPS
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Date: 2010-06-19
plant in bloom in small garden
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Date: 2012-07-07
white button-like flowers
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-06-25
plant in garden island in bloom
Location: Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
Date: 2016-07-19
plant in prairie restoration in bloom
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-06-18
mostly leaves in shady bed
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2012-06-08
close-up of flowers
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-01-09
brown dry fruit in winter

Photo Courtesy of Prairie Nursery. Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo Courtesy of Prairie Nursery. Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2018-03-02
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-08-01
This plant is tagged in:
Image

Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Feb 19, 2018 4:51 PM concerning plant:
    This is one of my favorite perennials! It is easy to grow, stays upright, and is a long bloomer from June until early September. It grows in dry or mesic soils in prairies, native meadows, or in open woods from Massachusetts into Minnesota down into Texas into Georgia. It attracts a good number of pollinators of bees, wasps, butterflies, and moths. It develops a taproot and does not have to ever be divided and reset. It is sold by almost every native plant nursery in its native range for native plant restorations & landscapes or naturalistic gardens. It also makes a good regular perennial in most any garden that minds itself just becoming a large clump. It does do some self-sowing around, which is the best method of propagation for a homeowner with this. I've never tried dividing it and I don't think it would work well. The little, brown, button-like seedheads look good in winter and make a nice dried flower arrangement.

« Add a new plant to the database

« The Plants Database Front Page