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groundsel tree

DEFINITIONS OF: groundsel tree

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n a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts

Synonyms:
Baccharis halimifolia, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush
Type of:
bush, shrub
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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