Baccharis salicifolia(Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.

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WFO wfo-0000121758 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Baccharis salicifolia, photographed by Amthinkia
fig. a Amthinkia, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-07 / obs. 204258104
Baccharis salicifolia, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. b Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198895281
Baccharis salicifolia, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina
fig. c Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199483302
Baccharis salicifolia, photographed by Irene
fig. d Irene, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197696208
Baccharis salicifolia, photographed by demianlescano
fig. e demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197495541
Baccharis salicifolia, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. f Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194314276
Baccharis salicifolia, photographed by Andrea Gantzer
fig. g Andrea Gantzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196922421
Baccharis salicifolia, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. h Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197622014

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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 = 1,434 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 1,434 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 45 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 alamanii DC.
  • Baccharis araucana Phil.
  • Baccharis bracteolata DC.
  • Baccharis chilquilla DC.
  • Baccharis coerulescens DC.
  • Baccharis confertifolia Colla
  • Baccharis corymbosa Meyen
  • Baccharis cuervi Phil.
  • Baccharis fevillei DC.
  • Baccharis glutinosa var. incisa Heering
  • Baccharis iresinoides Kunth
  • Baccharis kraussei Heering ex Reiche
  • Baccharis lanceolata Kunth
  • Baccharis linifolia Phil.
  • Baccharis linifolia DC.
  • Baccharis longifolia DC.
  • Baccharis longipes Kunze ex DC.
  • Baccharis marginalis DC.
  • Baccharis marginalis var. araucana Heering
  • Baccharis marginalis var. caerulescens Heering
  • Baccharis marginalis var. coerulescens (DC.) Heering ex Reiche
  • Baccharis marginalis var. linifolia Heering
  • Baccharis marginalis var. longipes (DC.) Heering ex Reiche
  • Baccharis marginalis var. longipes (Kunze ex DC.) Heering

and 21 more.

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.