Pluchea odorata
marsh fleabane, salt marsh fleabane, shrubby camphor-weed, sweet-scented camphorweed, sweetscent
stipitate- to sessile-glandular (commonly with eglandular but viscid hairs as well), not arachnose.
petiolate or sessile;
blades (succulent, drying thin) lance-ovate to ovate or ovate-elliptic, mostly 4–15 × 1–7 cm, margins shallowly serrate, faces glabrate to moderately or densely pubescent (hairs crinkly).
cylindro-campanulate, 5–6 × 4–8(–10) mm.
pink to rosy or purple.
usually cream, sometimes purplish, minutely sessile-glandular (outer usually also puberulent), sometimes glabrate.
in corymbiform arrays (flat-topped to rounded, often layered, sometimes incorporating relatively long, leafy, lateral branches, clusters of heads terminal on branches, some lateral branches nearly equaling or surpassing central portions).
persistent, bristles distinct.
= 20.
Pluchea odorata
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Involucres 5–6 × 4–6(–7) mm; functionally staminate florets 6–13(–19); plants 20–80(–200) cm | var. odorata |
1. Involucres 5–6 × 7–8(–10) mm; functionally staminate florets (14–)21–34; plants 20–60 cm | var. succulenta |
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