Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 998 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 426 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 464 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Parthenium hysterophorus L.

Kleinschmidt, H.E. & Johnson, R.W. (1977), Weeds of Queensland: 420 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 551 [secondary reference]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Parthenium. Flora of New South Wales 3: 267 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8: 445 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 635 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NT (formerly naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Trib. Heliantheae Subtrib. 7. Ambrosiinae. Flora of Australia 37: 564-565 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek parthenos (girl or virgin), probably a reference to the white ray florets in these plants; or derived from partheniki, the Greek name for a plant latinised as parthenice by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC); this plant is now Tanacetus parthenium (L.) Bernh. or Feverfew."

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