Quercus

Late-flowering Thoroughwort

Eupatorium serotinum

Native to Kentucky (estimated)

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

37CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including KY

Genus host records with ranges including KY · Eupatorium

  • Agonopterix pulvipennellaGoldenrod Leaffolder, Featherduster Agonopterix
  • Anavitrinella pampinariaCommon Gray, Cranberry Spanworm
  • Carmenta bassiformisEupatorium Borer Moth, Ironweed Clearwing Moth
  • Carmenta pyralidiformisBoneset Borer Moth
  • Chlorochlamys chloroleucariaBlackberry Looper Moth
  • Chrysodeixis includensSoybean Looper Moth
  • Cisseps fulvicollisYellow-Collared Scape Moth
  • Condica vecorsDusky Groundling
  • Dichomeris setosellaHairy Dichomeris
  • Digrammia continuataCurve-Lined Angle
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  • Dysodia oculatanaEyed Thyris
  • Estigmene acreaSalt Marsh Moth, Acrea Moth
  • Eupithecia miserulataCommon Eupithacia, Common Pug
  • Feltia subgothicaSubgothic Dart
  • Feltia tricosaConfused Dart, Tricose Dart
  • Haploa clymeneClymene Moth
  • Hellinsia unicolorUnmarked Plume Moth
  • Oedemasia concinnaRed-Humped Caterpillar, Red-Humped Appleworm
  • Oidaematophorus eupatoriiEupatorium Plume Moth
  • Orthodes majusculaRustic Quaker, Rustic Groundcat
  • Ostrinia obumbratalisSmartweed Borer
  • Papaipema cataphractaBurdock Border, Potato-Stalk Borer
  • Papaipema eupatoriiJoe-Pye Weed Borer, Eupatorium Borer Moth
  • Papaipema harrisiiHeracleum Stem Borer Moth, Cow Parsnip Borer
  • Patania silicalisHerbivorous Patania, Herbivorous Pleuroptya
  • Perigea xanthioidesRed Groundling
  • Platynota flavedanaBlack-Shaded Platynota
  • Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
  • Schinia trifasciaThree-Lined Flower Moth
  • Spoladea recurvalisHawaiian Beet Webworm
  • Synchlora aerataWavy-Lined Emerald, Camouflaged Looper
  • Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
  • Tornos scolopacinariaDimorphic Gray
  • Agonopterix eupatoriiella
  • Chionodes pseudofondella
  • Dichomeris washingtoniella
  • Dichrorampha leopardana
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
34BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Eupatorium

Individual names are not available yet.

Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
2Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Eupatorium

  • Colletes simulans
  • Megachile xylocopoides
Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
1BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

Recorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim · Eupatorium

  • Ortalis vetulaPlain Chachalaca
Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
Beetles 1
  • Diabrotica 12-punctata

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

Flies 24
  • Archytas aterrima
  • Belvosia bifasciata
  • Cistogaster occidua
  • Conops xanthopareus
  • Eristalis tenax
  • Exoprosopa fasciata
  • Exoprosopa fascipennis
  • Geron rufipes
  • Gymnosoma fuliginosa
  • Leskia analis
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  • Milesia ornata
  • Musca domestica
  • Neofischeria flava
  • Orthoneura nitida
  • Physocephala texana
  • Physocephala tibialis
  • Scepsis fulvicollis
  • Siphoplagia anomala
  • Spallanzania hesperidarum
  • Spilomyia longicornis
  • Systoechus vulgaris
  • Systropus macer
  • Trichopoda pennipes
  • Xanthomelana arcuata

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

Adult butterflies / moths 7
  • Argynnis cybele
  • Carmenta pyralidiformis
  • Feltia subgothica
  • Limochores taumas
  • Phyciodes tharos
  • Pontia protodice
  • Vanessa cardui

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

Other wasps 26
  • Ancistrocerus tigris
  • Anoplius illinoensis
  • Bicyrtes 4-fasciata
  • Cerceris fulvipes
  • Cerceris prominens
  • Eucerceris zonatus
  • Eumenes fraternus
  • Isodontia apicalis
  • Isodontia macrocephala
  • Leionotus arvensis
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  • Leionotus dorsalis
  • Leionotus scrophulariae
  • Monobia 4-dens
  • Philanthus punctatus
  • Philanthus ventilabris
  • Polistes annularis
  • Polistes pallipes
  • Polistes rubiginosus
  • Polistes variatus
  • Pompiloides marginatus
  • Porizon albipennis
  • Sphex gracilis
  • Sphex nigricans
  • Sphex procera
  • Sphex vulgaris
  • Tiphia robertsoni

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

Other insects 1
  • Euschistus variolarius

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

No records yet · Ants

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Asteraceae
Flower color
White

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Growing sources and scope
Also known as

Late flowering Thoroughwort; Lateflowering Thoroughwort

Conservation status

Kentucky rankS5
Global rankG5
KY statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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