Pluchea sagittalis |
Pluchea carolinensis |
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wing-stem camphorweed |
cough bush, cure-for-all, sourbrush, sourbush, wild tobacco |
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Habit | Perennials, 50–200 cm; fibrous-rooted. | Subshrubs, 100–400 cm; tap-rooted. |
Stems | minutely hirtellous to strigillose and sessile-glandular (winged by decurrent leaf bases). |
matted-villous with viscid, vitreous hairs, proximally glabrescent, not evidently glandular. |
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. |
petiolate (petioles 10–40 mm); blades (thickish, strongly bicolor) elliptic to oblong-obovate or ovate, 5–16(–20) × 2–6(–8) cm, margins entire or denticulate (teeth callous-tipped), abaxial faces moderately or sparsely matted-villous to crinkly-puberulent, adaxial (green) glabrate. |
Involucres | hemispheric to cupulate, 4–7 × 8–10 mm. |
broadly campanulate to cupulate, 4.5–6 × 5–10 mm. |
Corollas | white or rose-purple. |
whitish to pink-lavender. |
Phyllaries | greenish to cream, ± stipitate-glandular (outer oval-oblong to linear-attenuate). |
greenish to creamy or tan, sometimes slightly purple, glandular-tomentose. |
Heads | in corymbiform arrays. |
in dense, corymbiform arrays (held beyond the leaves, axes minutely bracteate, bracts abruptly differentiated from cauline leaves). |
Pappi | persistent, bristles distinct. |
tardily falling, bristles distinct. |
2n | = 20. |
= 20. |
Pluchea sagittalis |
Pluchea carolinensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | Late Feb–Jun. |
Habitat | Moist or wet, open habitats, ballast deposit areas | Roadsides, borders of hammocks |
Elevation | 0–10 m (0–0 ft) | 0 m (0 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America] |
Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Bermuda [Introduced, Fla.; introduced in Pacific Islands]
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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.) |
Pluchea carolinensis is naturalized in the Hawaiian Islands and other Pacific Islands. The names Pluchea odorata of authors, not (Linnaeus) Cassini, and P. symphytifolia of authors, not Conyza symphytifolia Miller in the sense of W. T. Gillis (1977), have been used for plants here called Pluchea carolinensis. The taxon was long identified as P. odorata (R. K. Godfrey 1952) and was known as P. [Conyza] symphytifolia (Miller) Gillis for a while. Conyza symphytifolia Miller is a synonym of Neurolaena lobata (Linnaeus) Cassini (R. Khan and C. E. Jarvis 1989). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 480. | FNA vol. 19, p. 480. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Plucheeae > Pluchea | Asteraceae > tribe Plucheeae > Pluchea |
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Synonyms | Conyza sagittalis, P. quitoc, P. suaveolens | Conyza carolinensis |
Name authority | (Lamarck) Cabrera: Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 3: 36. (1949) | (Jacquin) G. Don: in R. Sweet, Hort Brit. ed. 3, 350. (1839) |
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