Baccharis halimifolia L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Baccharis halimifolia L.

  • Description

    Species Description - A branching glabrous shrub, 1-3 dm. high, the branchlets angled, sometimes minutely scurfy. Leaves thick, those of the stem and larger branches 2-7 cm. long, 1-5 cm. wide, those of the branchlets oblanceolate, short-petioled or sessile, entire, or few-toothed toward the apex; heads in terminal peduncled clusters of 1-5, those of the sterile plant nearly globose when young, the bracts of the involucre oblong-ovate, obtuse, glutinous, appressed, the inner ones of the pistillate heads lanceolate, acute or acutish; pappus bright white, 6-8 mm. long, much exceeding the involucre.

  • Discussion

    Borders of marshes, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence : Coast of the eastern and southeastern United States. The Andros specimen (Brace 5203) may represent the variety angustior DC, abundant in Cuba. Groundsel-bush.

  • Distribution

    Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence : Coast of the eastern and southeastern United States. The Andros specimen (Brace 5203) may represent the variety angustior DC, abundant in Cuba.

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