Baccharis racemosaDC.

WFO wfo-0000039342 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Baccharis racemosa, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. a Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-15 / obs. 186485549
Baccharis racemosa, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. b Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186485091
Baccharis racemosa, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. c Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186485100
Baccharis racemosa, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. d Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189334574
Baccharis racemosa, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. e Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180008552
Baccharis racemosa, photographed by Bruno Avilez
fig. f Bruno Avilez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173187084
Baccharis racemosa, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. g Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113841577
Baccharis racemosa, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. h Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196656460

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000222069
Filed as
Baccharis racemosa (Ruiz & Pav.) DC.
Det. by
Müller, J.
Collected
Beck
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Baccharis racemosa is native: Argentina South, Bolivia, Chile Central, Chile South Argentina SouthBoliviaChile CentralChile South
Native distribution of Baccharis racemosa, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina South AGS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 323 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.9 °C 6.0 °C 8.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.7 °C 20.6 °C 26.2 °C
Annual rainfall 550 mm 1,512 mm 3,012 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 4 mm 85 mm 345 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 323 research-grade observations of Baccharis racemosa that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 16 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 eupatorioides Hook. & Arn.
  • Baccharis oblongifolia var. glabriuscula DC.
  • Baccharis ovata Hook. & Arn.
  • Baccharis racemosa var. angolensis Kuntze
  • Baccharis racemosa var. eupatorioides (Hook. & Arn.) Kuntze
  • Baccharis racemosa var. eupatorioides (Hook. & Arn.) Kuntze
  • Baccharis racemosa var. integerrima Kuntze
  • Baccharis racemosa var. obtusifolia Kuntze
  • Baccharis racemosa var. racemosa
  • Baccharis racemosa var. typica Heering
  • Baccharis racemosa var. urvillei Kuntze
  • Baccharis rigida Hook. & Arn.
  • Baccharis sessilifolia var. hebeclada DC.
  • Molina racemosa Ruiz & Pav.
  • Neomolina racemosa (Ruiz & Pav.) F.H.Hellw.
  • Neomolina racemosa (DC.) F.H.Hellw.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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.