Pluchea Fiebrigii

''Pluchea'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s in the tribe

Inuleae Inuleae is a tribe of flowering plants in the subfamily Asteroideae. Genera Inuleae genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database as of April 2022: *''Adelostigma'' *''Allagopappus'' *''Allopterigeron'' *'' Amblyocarpum'' *'' Antiphi ...

within the family

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely

fleabane Fleabane is a common name for some flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Most are in the subfamily Asteroideae: * ''Conyza'' (butterweeds or horseweeds: Astereae) * ''Erigeron'' (Astereae) * ''Inula'' ("yellowheads": Inuleae) * ''Pluchea'' (ca ...

s. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are called sourbushes. There are plants of many forms, from annual and perennial herbs to

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s and

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s, and there is variation in the

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

of leaves, flowers, and fruits.Perera, W., et al. (2007)
Flavonols from leaves of ''Pluchea carolinensis'' (Jacq.) G.Don (Asteraceae).
'' Revista Latinoamericana de Química'' 35(3), 68-73.Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 478 ''Pluchea'' Cassini
/ref>Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 847 阔苞菊属 kuo bao ju shu ''Pluchea'' Cassini
/ref> The genus was named for the French naturalist Abbé

Noël-Antoine Pluche Noël-Antoine Pluche (13 November 1688 – 19 November 1761), known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest. He is now known for his ''Spectacle de la nature'', a most popular work of natural history. Pluche, son of a baker, was born in Reims, i ...

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Pluchea arabica ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' (Boiss.) Qaiser & Lack - Yemen, Oman * ''

Pluchea arguta ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' Boiss. - India, Iran * '' Pluchea baccharis'' (Mill.) Pruski – rosy camphorweed - southeastern United States, Bahamas, Cuba, Yucatán Peninsula, Central America * ''

Pluchea baccharoides ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Australia * '' Pluchea bequaertii'' Robyns -central Africa * '' Pluchea biformis'' DC. * '' Pluchea bojeri'' (DC.) Humbert - Madagascar * ''

Pluchea camphorata ''Pluchea camphorata'', known as camphorweed or marsh-fleabane, is a small flowering herbaceous annual plant of the family Asteraceae. Description ''Pluchea camphorata'' is a small herbaceous plant that grows approximately tall, with blooms o ...

'' (L.) DC. – camphor pluchea - eastern + central United States, Mexico * ''

Pluchea carolinensis ''Pluchea carolinensis'' is a plant in the genus ''Pluchea''. Description ''Pluchea carolinensis'' is a plant from the genus ''Pluchea'', the species was first described by the Scottish Botanist George Don. It is a shrub that can grow up to 2.5m ...

'' (Jacq.) G.Don – cure-for-all - Latin America, West Indies,

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Pluchea chingoyo ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' (Kunth) DC. - Peru, Chile * ''

Pluchea dentex ''Pluchea dentex'' is a plant in the Asteraceae family, first described in 1867 by George Bentham, from specimens collected in Queensland by Robert Brown at Broad Sound and Thirsty Sound, by Ferdinand von Mueller at the source of the Gilbert ...

'' R.Br. ex Benth. - Australia * ''

Pluchea dioscoridis ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' (L.) DC. - Egypt, Middle East * ''

Pluchea dodonaeifolia ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' (Hook. & Arn.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. - Bolivia * ''

Pluchea domingensis ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

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Pluchea dunlopii ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' Hunger - Australia * ''

Pluchea eupatorioides ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' Kurz - China,

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* '' Pluchea ferdinandi-muelleri'' Domin - Australia * ''

Pluchea fiebrigii ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' H.Rob. & Cuatrec. - Bolivia * ''

Pluchea foetida ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' (L.) DC. – stinking camphorweed - southeastern United States, Yucatán Peninsula * †'' Pluchea glutinosa''

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(extinct) * '' Pluchea grevei'' (Baill.) Humbert - Madagascar * '' Pluchea heterophylla'' Vatke - tropical Africa * '' Pluchea hirsuta'' (L.) Less. - India * ''

Pluchea indica ''Pluchea indica'' is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae. Its common names include Indian camphorweed, Indian fleabane, and Indian pluchea.

'' (L.) Less. – Indian camphorweed, Indian fleabane - India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia * ''

Pluchea kelleri ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' (Thell.) Thulin - Somalia * ''

Pluchea lanceolata ''Pluchea lanceolata'', the rasna or rasana, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the ...

'' (DC.) Oliv. & Hiern - India, Afghanistan, parts of western Africa * '' Pluchea lanuginosa'' C.B.Clarke - India * '' Pluchea laxiflora'' Hook. & Arn. ex Baker * '' Pluchea linearifolia'' C.B.Clarke - eastern India * ''

Pluchea littoralis ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

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Pluchea lucens ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' Thulin * ''

Pluchea lycioides ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' (Hiern) Merxm. - South Africa * ''

Pluchea mexicana ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

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* '' Pluchea microcephala'' R.K.Godfrey - Bolivia, Peru, Argentina * '' Pluchea nogalensis'' Chiov. - Somalia * '' Pluchea oblongifolia'' DC. - Brazil * '' Pluchea odorata'' (L.) Cass. – sweetscent, saltmarsh fleabane - from

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to Bolivia * '' Pluchea ovalis'' (Pers.) DC. - Arabian Peninsula, Morocco * '' Pluchea parvifolia'' (A.Gray) R.K.Godfrey -

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Pluchea polygonata ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' (DC.) Gagnep. - India, Indochina * '' Pluchea pteropoda'' Hemsl. ex Hemsl - China, Indochina * '' Pluchea rosea'' R.K.Godfrey - Mexico, Honduras, south-central + southeastern United States * '' Pluchea rubelliflora'' (F.Muell.) B.L.Rob. - Australia * '' Pluchea rufescens'' (DC.) A.J.Scott -

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* '' Pluchea sagittalis'' Less. – wingstem camphorweed - South America, West Indies * '' Pluchea salicifolia'' (Mill.) S.F.Blake - Mexico, Guatemala * '' Pluchea sarcophylla'' Chiov. - Somalia * '' Pluchea scabrida'' DC. - Philippines * ''

Pluchea sericea ''Pluchea sericea'', commonly called arrowweed or ''cachanilla'' (Mexico), is a rhizomatous evergreen shrub of riparian areas in the lower Sonoran Desert and surrounding areas. It is common in the lower Colorado River valley of California, Nevada ...

'' (Nutt.) Coville – arrowweed - southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico * '' Pluchea somaliensis'' (Thell.) Thulin - Somalia * '' Pluchea sordida'' (Vatke) Oliv. & Hiern - tropical Africa * '' Pluchea succulenta'' Mesfin - Somalia * '' Pluchea tertanthera'' F.Muell. - Australia * '' Pluchea tomentosa'' DC. - India * '' Pluchea wallichiana'' DC. - India * ''

Pluchea yucatanensis ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' G.L.Nesom – Yucatán camphorweed - Yucatán Peninsula incl Belize ; Formerly included * '' Allopterigeron filifolius'' (F.Muell.) Dunlop (as ''P. filifolia'' F.Muell.) * '' Baccharis decussata'' (Klatt) Hieron. (as ''P. decussata'' Klatt) * ''

Cratystylis conocephala ''Cratystylis conocephala'', the blue bush daisy, blue bush, grey bush, and round leaved greybush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to southeast Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria. It ...

'' (F.Muell.) S.Moore (as ''P. conocephala'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell.) * '' Neurolaena lobata'' (L.) Cass. (as ''P. symphytifolia'' (Mill.) Gillis) * ''

Streptoglossa liatroides ''Streptoglossa liatroides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a low, spreading or upright perennial herb with pink or red to purple flowers. It grows in South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and the No ...

'' (Turcz.) Dunlop (as ''P. ligulata'' F.Muell.) * ''

Streptoglossa macrocephala ''Streptoglossa macrocephala'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a spreading or upright perennial herb with pink to purple flowers. It grows in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Description ...

'' (F.Muell.) Dunlop (as ''P. macrocephala'' F.Muell.) * ''

Streptoglossa odora ''Streptoglossa odora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a spreading, perennial herb with pink or bluish-purple flowers. It grows in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Description ''Strepto ...

'' (F.Muell.) Dunlop (as ''P. odora'' F.Muell.) * ''

Thespidium basiflorum ''Thespidium'' is a genus of Australian plants in the daisy family. ;SpeciesUSDA Plants Profile

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