Cielitos (Ageratum corymbosum)

N omb res comu n es: Jcama (Espaol) / Bola de hilo, Mano de gato, Mota morada, Tacotillo (ND)
Si n n i mos: Ageratum elachycarpum, Ageratum lucidum, Ageratum platypodum, Alomia robinsoniana, Ageratum
rugosum

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National distribution 1
United States
Ori gi n : Native
R egu l ari ty : Regularly occurring
Cu rren tl y : Present
Con fi d en ce : Confident

Description 2,3
Peren n i al s or su b sh ru b s, 30100 cm (fibrous-rooted). Stems erect to basally decumbent, puberulent
to minutely strigoso-hispid. Leaf b l ad es ovate to rhombic-lanceolate, 38 13.5 cm, margins toothed,

abaxial faces usually puberulent, sometimes minutely strigoso-hispid, densely gland-dotted. Ped u n cl es
finely puberulent (not pilose), eglandular. In vol u cres 56 mm. Ph yl l ari es narrowly lanceolate (0.40.7
mm wide, innermost often 11.5 mm longer than outer), finely puberulent, eglandular, tips green or
purplish, filiform. Corol l as usually blue to lavender, sometimes white. Cyp sel ae glabrous; p ap p i
usually crowns of connate scales with erose margins or tubular portions longer than divisions, rarely
with 1 or more awnlike lobes. 2 n = 20, 30, 40.

Synonym 2,3
Ageratum corymbosum var. jaliscense B. L. Robinson; A. salicifolium Hemsley; A. strictum Hemsley

Type information 4
Isotyp e for Ageratum lucidum B.L. Rob.
Catal og N u mb er: US 382001
Col l ecti on : Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Veri fi cati on Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Prep arati on : Pressed specimen
Col l ector(s): C. G. Pringle
Year Col l ected : 1900
Local i ty: Sides of conglomerate knobs of Sierra de Tepoxtlan., Morelos, Mexico, North America
El evati on (m): 2310 to 2310

National nature serve conservation status 1

United States
R ou n d ed N ati on al Statu s R an k : N1 - Critically Imperiled

Comments 2,3
Habitat information came mostly from collections from Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. Ageratum
corymbosum grows in all Mexican states except for the extreme southeast. It has been included in
various summaries as occurring in Texas; as noted by D. S. Correll and M. C. Johnston (1970), those
records apparently were based on a collection by Charles Wright from southwestern New Mexico.
Varieties and forms of Ageratum corymbosum have been recognized (e.g., M. F. Johnson 1971; R.
McVaugh 1984). McVaugh wryly noted that extremes of these intergrading infraspecific entities "can be
recognized with a little imagination." The form that reaches the United States (with ovate-lanceolate
leaves) is var. jaliscense.

References
1. NatureServe, some rights reserved
2. Flora of North America Vol. 21: 480, 481, 482 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed
Nov 12, 2008.
3. Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights
reserved
4. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some
rights reserved