Baccharis halimifolia

Definitions of Baccharis halimifolia
  1. noun
    a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
    synonyms: consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush, groundsel tree
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    type of:
    bush, shrub
    a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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