Description
Baccharis –
There are about 350 species of dioecious deciduous or evergreen shrubs and herbaceous perennials, in this genus. They occur from coasts, salt marshes, river banks, mountain and woodland margins in the America. Leaves are alternate, tough and leathery, and very variable in shape but mostly toothed or lobed and slightly resinous, and wiry stemmed, or absent. Flowers are daisy like, usually white or gray held singly or in axillary panicles or corymbs. Where not hardy grow in a cool greenhouse. Some are salt resistant.
Grow in fertile soil in full sun.
Prone to rust and fungal leaf spots.
B. magellanica – This prostrate to erect shrub from the windswept climates of Magellan and the Falkland Island grows 12-15″ tall and 8-10″ wide. It produces paddle or spoon shaped, hairless mid green leaves, 2-3 ½” long, with a sticky coating when young. In summer it bears terminal, solitary small yellow flowers, to 1″ across, followed buff seed heads.
Zones 7-9
