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Ambrosia hispida
Also called Bay Tansy, Sweet Bay, Western Ragweed, Wormwood
Coastal ragweed is a low-growing perennial wild plant of the daisy family native to the Neotropics, Florida and the Caribbean, with prostrate stems and finely divided leaves. It is a wild species rather than a commonly grown garden plant, so the care fields below are general guidance.
Ambrosia hispida, the coastal ragweed, is a species of perennial plant native to the Neotropics. It belongs to the family Asteraceae.
Coastal ragweed occurs in the US state of Florida, in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and the state of Veracruz, as well as Belize, Honduras, islands of the Caribbean, and Guyana in South America.
Ambrosia arborescens · Annual ragweed · Skeletonleaf bur ragweed · Great Ragweed · Ragweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ambrosia hispida by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
