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|accepted_name=Ageratum maritimum
|accepted_authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.
|place=4(fol.): 117. 1818
|year=1818
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|place=4(qto.) 150. 1820
|year=1820
}}
|common_names=Cape Sable whiteweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ageratum littorale
|authority=A. Gray
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ageratum littorale var. hondurense
|authority=B. L. Robinson
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae;Ageratum;Ageratum maritimum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ageratum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ageratum maritimum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 481
|treatment_page=page 482
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 10–50 cm (semisucculent, rhizomatous, forming colonies). <b>Stems</b> decumbent to straggling or creeping (rooting at nodes), glabrous but for puberulous-pilose nodes. <b>Leaf</b> blades deltate-ovate to oblong, mostly 0.8–4 × 0.5–3 cm, (fleshy) margins toothed, faces glabrous or glabrate. <b>Peduncles</b> glabrous or glabrate. <b>Involucres</b> ca. 3 × 3–4 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous or glabrate, tips abruptly tapered to nearly obtuse. <b>Corollas</b> lavender or blue to white. <b>Cypselae</b> glabrous; pappi usually blunt coronas ca. 0.1 mm, rarely of separate scales.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year round.
|habitat=Beach sand and nearby thickets, coral soils, salt marshes, hammocks, roadsides
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico (Quintana Roo);West Indies (Cuba;Hispaniola);Central America (Belize).
|discussion=<p>Plants from Florida (<i>Ageratum</i> littorale, the type from Florida) are described here. Plants of the West Indies and Mexico (broadening the species concept to <i>A. maritimum</i>, the type from Cuba) have various elaborations of vestiture and a more conspicuous pappus–coronas with even to laciniate margins or rings of nearly separate scales mostly 0.2–1.5 mm. In addition to the distinctive relatively small, glabrous or glabrate leaves, plants of <i>A. maritimum</i> are characterized by heads in clusters, usually held well beyond the leaves.</p>
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name=Ageratum maritimum
|author=
|authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ageratum littorale;Ageratum littorale var. hondurense
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering year round.
|habitat=Beach sand and nearby thickets, coral soils, salt marshes, hammocks, roadsides
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico (Quintana Roo);West Indies (Cuba;Hispaniola);Central America (Belize).
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.;
|publication year=1818;1820
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae
|genus=Ageratum
|species=Ageratum maritimum
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