Baccharis halimifolia

TaxID: 114187

Basic Information

Baccharis halimifolia

Consumption-weed, Groundsel Tree

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 Le n, San Luis Potos , 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, menguili , 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.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Asterales

Asteraceae

Baccharis

halimifolia

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Baccharis halimifolia
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(c) Douglas Goldman@BY-SA
Baccharis halimifolia
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(c) Ashley M Bradford@BY-NC
Baccharis halimifolia
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(c) Mary Keim@BY-NC-SA
Baccharis halimifolia
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(c) mncrowley@BY-NC
Baccharis halimifolia
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(c) Dakota Parish@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (31 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Austria IAS of Union concern 2016
Belgium IAS of Union concern 2016
Bulgaria IAS of Union concern 2016
Cyprus IAS of Union concern 2016
Czechia IAS of Union concern 2016
Germany IAS of Union concern 2016
Denmark IAS of Union concern 2016
EPPO A2 Present —
Spain IAS of Union concern 2016
Estonia IAS of Union concern 2016
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Distribution (20 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

18
Present
2
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Australia Present
Belgium Present —
Bahamas Present —
Brazil Present —
Canada Present
Cuba Present —
Spain Present —
France Absent
United Kingdom Present —
Georgia Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (5 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
GPAGA092-17 - rbcLa 553 United States 2016-11-14 32.140285, -81.14458
GBVN1787-11 - rbcL 1389 - - -
GBITS9784-21 - ITS 630 United States 1978-09-09 -
EBGEP085-24 - rbcL 599 United Kingdom 1991-09-01 50.716812, -1.751659
BBYUK254-12 - rbcLa 550 Canada 2010-09-13 43.766, -65.903

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