Baccharis dracunculifolia

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Baccharis dracunculifolia, photographed by Ezequiel Vera — fig. b Ezequiel Vera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192023060

Baccharis dracunculifolia, photographed by Cecilia Fer Díaz — fig. c Cecilia Fer Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192600217

Baccharis dracunculifolia, photographed by Leonel Roget — fig. d Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168143440

Baccharis dracunculifolia, photographed by demianlescano — fig. e demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 166603115

Baccharis dracunculifolia, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco — fig. f Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126408912

Baccharis dracunculifolia, photographed by Fernando Sessegolo — fig. g Fernando Sessegolo, CC0 1.0 / obs. 114277966

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Native distribution of Baccharis dracunculifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Argentina Northeast	AGE	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest	AGW
Bolivia	BOL
Brazil South	BZS
Brazil Southeast	BZL
Brazil West-Central	BZC
Paraguay	PAR
Peru	PER
Uruguay	URU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 38 in flower of 69 examined

88%

60%

56%

60%

33%

71%

56%

Proportion of examined Baccharis dracunculifolia in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	1	too few examined
Feb	7	8	88%	53% to 98%
Mar	3	5	60%	23% to 88%
Apr	10	18	56%	34% to 75%
May	3	5	60%	23% to 88%
Jun	2	6	33%	10% to 70%
Jul	1	4	too few examined
Aug	5	7	71%	36% to 92%
Sep	5	9	56%	27% to 81%
Oct	0	4	too few examined
Nov	1	2	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Baccharis dracunculifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 38 of 69 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Baccharis axilliflora Steud. ex Malag.
Baccharis bracteata Hook. & Arn.
Baccharis dracunculifolia f. dracunculifolia
Baccharis dracunculifolia f. spectabilis Heering
Baccharis dracunculifolia f. subviscosa Kuntze
Baccharis dracunculifolia subsp. tandilensis (Speg.) Giuliano
Baccharis dracunculifolia var. dracunculifolia
Baccharis dracunculifolia var. integerrima Kuntze
Baccharis paucidentata Sch.Bip. ex Baker
Baccharis paucidentata Sch.Bip.
Baccharis pulverulenta Klatt
Baccharis tandilensis Speg.
Conyza linearifolia Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.