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Chromolaena odorata

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(Linnaeus) R.M. King & H. Robinson

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bahamas
• Bolivia
• Belize
• Bermuda
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Florida
• Texas
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Tropical forest
• disturbed areas
• forest edge
• riverside
• thickets
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Nov-Mar (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Mar (Nicaragua)

Leaning shrub, scandent tree or shrub to 10m with villous branches. Pubescent to glabrate with dentate or entire leaves to 125mm x 50mm, hairy on nerves beneath. Terminal cymes with bracts, of 10-35 whitish to lavender flowers to 12mm, phyllaries in several series. Hairy achenes to 5mm

Further References

• Neotrop
• FCP
• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• USDA
• USNH
• SAFIO
• Standley
• Tanziman Ara