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Baccharis halimifolia
Also called Groundsel Bush, Sea Myrtle, Consumption Weed, Tree Groundsel, Groundsel Tree, Groundseltree, Groundselbush
Eastern baccharis is a fall-flowering, salt-tolerant shrub or occasional small tree native to the eastern and southern US, Mexico, the Bahamas and Cuba. It is grown mainly as a hedge, border or specimen plant in mild, moist, sunny sites.
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), eastern Mexico (Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Quintana Roo), the Bahamas, and Cuba.
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.
Baccharis halimifolia, usually found in wetlands, is unusually salt-tolerant, and often found along salty or brackish shores of marshes and estuaries, and the inland shores of coastal barrier islands. In Florida, it is also found along ditches, in old fields, and in other disturbed areas. Other habitats in the northeastern United States include freshwater tidal marshes and open woods and thickets along the seacoast.
Baccharis halimifolia is occasionally cultivated and is considered useful as a hedge or border as well as a specimen plant.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Baccharis halimifolia 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.
