Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Pluchea odorata
Pluchea odorata (L.) Cass.
Sweetscent, Saltmarsh Fleabane
Asteraceae (Aster Family)
USDA Symbol: PLODUSDA Native Status: L48 (N), PR (N), VI (N), CAN (I)
Specimen & Label Data
Pluchea odorata
Purple Pluchea
Asteraceae
Location: 15 m south of the wooden bridge, on small island--Oakwell Farms.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Moist, sometimes flooded ditch bottom. Full sun. Alkaline soil.
Description: Erect, branching annual, to 15 dm tall. Leaves lanceolate, serrate; lower ones petiolate, upper ones sessile. Inflorescence cymose in purplish heads.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jul 18, 1987
Specimen number: 268
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0522
Accession Date: Aug 24, 1993
Accession Number: 40
Annotations: SCXXB [=P. purpurescens]