Pluchea camphorata (L.) DC.

Common Camphorweed; Plowman's Wort; Stinkweed

Herb

Annual

Vascular

Common Camphorweed is a native herbaceous species in the Sunflower family (Asteraceae). It can be found throughout Alabama. Common Camphorweed occurs along the margins of ponds and streams, in wet roadside ditches, in bottomland hardwood forests, and sometimes weedy in disturbed sites. It is an annual or short-lived perennial with a fibrous root system. Stems are erect, up to six feet in height, unbranched or branched near the top, minutely pubescent, and sessile glandular. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, elliptic or oblong in outline, with serrate or entire margins. The leaves are glandular pubescent or pubescent with sessile glands. All parts of the plant are aromatic when crushed, with a strong fetid odor. Flowers are produced in heads containing only disc flowers. The heads are arranged in rounded panicles. The phyllaries are cream-purplish, minutely pubescent (rarely glabrous), and sessile glandular. The corollas are rose-purplish. The fruit is an achene with pappus of barbellate bristles.—A. Diamond.

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Native FACW (NWPL)

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