Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Baccharis neglecta
Baccharis neglecta Britton
False Willow, Jara Dulce, Poverty Weed, Roosevelt Weed
Asteraceae (Aster Family)
USDA Symbol: BANE2USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Baccharis neglecta
Roosevelt Weed
Asteraceae
Location: Highway 16, 2 miles west of Helotes.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Roadside fenceline in partial roadbed fill.
Description: 2.5 m tall; branchlets striate; leaves sessile,narrowly elliptic, acute, prominently one-nerved; staminate heads many flowered, involucre hemispheric, 3.5 mm high; phyllaries ovate, corolla gradually funnelform, 3 mm long with 5 lanceolate lobes.
County: Bexar
Collector: Mike Fox
Collection Date: Sep 25. 1995
Specimen number: 189
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 1068
Accession Date: May 29, 1996
Accession Number: 88
Annotations: MC-XB (In flower). [staminate]