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
Bacharis neglecta
Roosevelt Weed
Asteraceae
Location: Highway 16, 2 miles west of Helotes, Texas 78023Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Roadside fenceline, partial roadbed fill.
Description: 2.5 m tall; brachtlets striate; leaves sessile, narrowly elliptic, acute, prominently one nerved; pistillate heads with many flowers, involucre campanulate, about 5 mm high, phyllaries ovate, receptacle flat, corolla filiform.
County: Bexar
Collector: Mike Fox
Collection Date: May 1, 1996
Specimen number: 190
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 1069
Accession Date: May 29, 1996
Accession Number: 88
Annotations: MCXXB (In flower). [pistillate]