Povertyweed, Poverty Sumpweed

Iva axillaris Pursh.

Asteraceae (Aster Family)

 

▲ ▼ povertyweed along gravel road in South Dakota

▲ ▼  mature stem with dried axillary flowers

Povertyweed:  (pp. 152-153, Weeds of the Great Plains; not in Weeds of the Northeast)

·         native prairie species that is a creeping perennial, with rhizomes, growing 6-24” tall and forming large colonies

·         leaves and stems gray-green, thick, rough-textured, opposite; may have medicinal odor

·         flowers tiny, green in axils of leaves

·         not grazed by livestock

·         more common north and west of Missouri