Index / Search / Baccharis halimifolia
§1 Plant
Baccharis halimifolia L.
vernacular eastern baccharis — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Baccharis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 259 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.8
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 10 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 10 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 85,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 259 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Blount 01009
- Bullock 01011
- Butler 01013
- Chambers 01017
- Cherokee 01019
- Choctaw 01023
- Clarke 01025
- Clay 01027
- Coffee 01031
- Conecuh 01035
- Covington 01039
- Crenshaw 01041
- Dale 01045
- Dallas 01047
- Escambia 01053
- Etowah 01055
- Fayette 01057
- Greene 01063
- Hale 01065
- Henry 01067
- Jackson 01071
- Jefferson 01073
- Lawrence 01079
- Lee 01081
- Lowndes 01085
- Macon 01087
- Marengo 01091
- Mobile 01097
- Monroe 01099
- Montgomery 01101
- Morgan 01103
- Pickens 01107
- Pike 01109
- Randolph 01111
- Russell 01113
- St. Clair 01115
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Walker 01127
- Washington 01129
- Wilcox 01131
Arkansas view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Cleveland 05025
- Columbia 05027
- Conway 05029
- Dallas 05039
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Garland 05051
- Grant 05053
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Jefferson 05069
- Lafayette 05073
- Lincoln 05079
- Little River 05081
- Lonoke 05085
- Miller 05091
- Monroe 05095
- Montgomery 05097
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Perry 05105
- Pike 05109
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- Sevier 05133
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Woodruff 05147
- Yell 05149
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 60 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Banks 13011
- Berrien 13019
- Bibb 13021
- Brantley 13025
- Camden 13039
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Crisp 13081
- Elbert 13105
- Glynn 13127
- Grady 13131
- Harris 13145
- Hart 13147
- Henry 13151
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Johnson 13167
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Lowndes 13185
- McIntosh 13191
- Mitchell 13205
- Morgan 13211
- Oconee 13219
- Randolph 13243
- Tattnall 13267
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Troup 13285
- Turner 13287
- Wilkes 13317
- Worth 13321
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Gloucester 51073
- Goochland 51075
- Greensville 51081
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Prince George 51149
- Richmond 51159
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BAHA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3129663 ↗Record version
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