Pluchea odorata
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Photo Courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Pluchea odorata |
| Common name: | sweetscent; salt-marsh fleabane |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb; subshrub |
| Duration: | annual; perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 1'- 3' |
| Foliage: | alternate leaves, petiolate or sessile; margins shallowly serrate |
| Flower: | pink to lavendar, 1/4-5/8" across |
| Flowering time: | Late August to late October |
| Habitat: | salt marshes; wet soil or water in fresh to brackish conditions |
| Range in New Jersey: | along the coast and lower Delaware Bay |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | S2; Listed Pinelands |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | An obligate wetland species, i.e., Occurs almost always (estimated probability 99%) under
natural conditions in wetlands Pluchea, after Noel-Antoine Pluche (1688-1761), a French naturalist; odorata, fragrant, sweet-smelling.. |