Baccharis halimifoliaL.

groundsel tree

WFO wfo-0000038084 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Baccharis halimifolia, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. a Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-27 / obs. 201290586

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,086 observations

Flowering observations of Baccharis halimifolia by month
MonthObservations
Jan3
Feb5
Mar1
Apr16
May4
Jun0
Jul3
Aug3
Sep261
Oct527
Nov228
Dec35

Peak flowering in Oct, from 1,086 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Baccharis halimifolia var. angustior DC.
  • Baccharis halimifolia var. halimifolia
  • Conyza halimifolia Desf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.