Pluchea baccharis (Mill.) Pruski

Rosy Camphorweed; Marsh Fleabane

Herb

Perennial

Vascular

Rosy Camphorweed is a native herbaceous perennial in the Sunflower family (Asteraceae). It is native to the southern third of Alabama. Rosy Camphorweed occurs in wet pine savannas, in bogs, along the margins of ponds and streams, and in wet roadside ditches. It is a perennial with a short to elongate rhizome, sometimes forming large clones. Stems are erect, usually unbranched or branched only near the top, pubescent, and glandular. Leaves are alternate, sessile, the bases clasping the stem, ovate to elliptic or oblong in outline, pubescent, glandular, and with toothed margins. All parts of the plant are aromatic when crushed with a sweet, resinous odor. Flowers are produced in heads containing only disc flowers. The heads are arranged in corymbs. The phyllaries are pink to purplish, pubescent, and glandular. The corollas are pink to purplish. The fruit is an achene with pappus of barbellate bristles.—A. Diamond

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Native FACW (NWPL)

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