Baccharis halimifolia

Baccharis halimifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Baccharis
Species:
B. halimifolia
Binomial name
Baccharis halimifolia
Natural range of Baccharis halimifolia in United States + Bahamas
Synonyms[1]
  • Baccharis axillaris Mart. ex Baker
  • Baccharis halimifolia var. angustior DC.
  • Conyza halimifolia Desf.

Baccharis halimifolia is a North American species of shrubs in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Nova Scotia, the eastern and southern United States (from Massachusetts south to Florida and west to Texas and Oklahoma),[2] eastern Mexico (Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Quintana Roo),[3] the Bahamas,[4] and Cuba.[5][6][7][8][9]

Widely used common names include eastern baccharis, groundsel bush, sea myrtle, and saltbush. Consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel tree, menguilié, and silverling are also used more locally. In most of its range, where no other species of the genus occur, this plant is often simply called baccharis.

  1. ^ "Baccharis halimifolia L. — the Plant List". Archived from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
  2. ^ "Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map". Bonap.net. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  3. ^ Sousa Sánchez, M. & E. F. Cabrera Cano. 1983. Flora de Quintana Roo. Listados Floríst. México 2: 1–100.
  4. ^ USGS Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center: Digital Representations of Tree Species Range Maps from "Atlas of United States Trees" by Elbert L. Little, Jr. (and other publications)
  5. ^ "Baccharis halimifolia". Flora of North America. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  6. ^ Hitchcock, A.S. & P. C. Standley (1919). Flora of the District of Columbia and Vicinity (Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, vol.21). Washington: United States National Museum (Reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, LaVergne, Tennessee, 2010). pp. 329 (+42 plates). ISBN 1-4369-8558-7.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference PennaBaccharis was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Species at Risk Conservation Fund 2009 Approved Projects". Nova Scotia Canada Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  9. ^ Heering, Wilhelm Christian August 1907. in Urban, Ignatz, Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 5(2): 243 in Latin, mention of Cuba under var. angustior