Pluchea odorata (L.) Cass.
Detail
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Botanical Name
- Pluchea odorata (L.) Cass.
- Common Name
- Salt Marsh Fleabane
- Synonym(s)
- Pluchea purpurascens (Sw.) DC.
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Pluchea odorata (L.) Cass.
- Comments
- Plants with larger heads (involucre 5.5-7 mm high, disk 5-9 mm wide) but a shorter stature (seldom more than 6 dm) commonly occur northward and have been distinguished as var. succulenta (Fern.) Cronq.
- Habitat
- Tidal oligohaline to mesohaline (rarely freshwater) marshes, tidal swamps, high-energy tidal shores, maritime swamps, brackish interdune swales and ponds; rarely in impoundments inland. Locally common in the estuarine and maritime zones of the Coastal Plain; rare inland in the Coastal Plain and outer Piedmont.
- Native Status
- Native
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