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Pluchea sagittalis

wing-stem camphorweed
Habit Perennials, 50–200 cm; fibrous-rooted.
Stems

minutely hirtellous to strigillose and sessile-glandular (winged by decurrent leaf bases).
Leaves

sessile;

blades usually lanceolate to lance-elliptic (proximal sometimes spatulate or oblanceolate), mostly 5–15 × 1–3(–4) cm, margins shallowly and closely toothed, faces minutely hirtellous to strigillose and sessile-glandular.
Involucres

hemispheric to cupulate, 4–7 × 8–10 mm.
Corollas

white or rose-purple.
Phyllaries

greenish to cream, ± stipitate-glandular (outer oval-oblong to linear-attenuate).
Heads

in corymbiform arrays.
Pappi

persistent, bristles distinct.
2n

= 20.

Pluchea sagittalis
Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Moist or wet, open habitats, ballast deposit areas
Elevation 0–10 m (0–0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Pluchea sagittalis is adventive, probably a waif; it was collected as a ballast weed by C. Mohr near Mobile (1891, 1894, 1896) and by A. H. Curtiss near Pensacola (1886, 1901).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 480.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Plucheeae > Pluchea
Sibling taxa
P. baccharis, P. camphorata, P. carolinensis, P. foetida, P. longifolia, P. odorata, P. sericea, P. yucatanensis
Synonyms Conyza sagittalis, P. quitoc, P. suaveolens
Name authority (Lamarck) Cabrera: Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 3: 36. (1949)
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