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Iva asperifolia
Also called Pensacola Marshelder
Iva asperifolia, the Pensacola marsh elder, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It grows in the south-central United States (Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana, with naturalized populations in Florida, Missouri, and Indiana). It has also been found in the state of Veracruz in eastern Mexico.
Iva asperifolia is a wind-pollinated herb up to 30 cm (1 foot) tall. It has lance-linear leaves, and many small nodding (hanging) flower heads in elongated arrays, each head with a few small flowers.
Narrowleaf marsh elder · Annual marsh elder · Povertyweed · Fly marsh elder · Corbin's Sumpweed · Jesuit's bark · San Diego povertyweed · Seacoast marsh elder · Piedmont marsh elder · Marsh elder
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Iva asperifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
