Baccharis halimifolia Fred Heutte unmarked deep green leaves

unmarked deep green leaves

Low and slowly spreading

Aesculus glabra var

and soil that drains

Bees and hummingbirds find the brushes readily

Baccharis halimifolia Fred Heutte unmarked deep green leavesBaccharis halimifolia is a plant of edges and thresholds, growing where the land loosens and blurs into water: salt marsh margins, ditches, tidal creeks, and back dunes. In fall, when most things are shutting down, the groundsel bush erupts into a soft storm of white seed fluff, like a marsh firework frozen mid explosion. This is the shrub that coastal Louisiana calls manglier, that botanists call groundsel bush or eastern baccharis, and that local