Baccharis tolaPhil.

WFO wfo-0000122613 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Baccharis tola, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. a Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 193305823
Baccharis tola, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. b Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192658708
Baccharis tola, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. c Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192646100
Baccharis tola, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. d Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192614104
Baccharis tola, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. e Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191977208
Baccharis tola, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. f Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191904333
Baccharis tola, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. g Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178244074
Baccharis tola, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. h Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178576014

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Baccharis tola is native: Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Chile North, Peru Argentina NorthwestBoliviaChile NorthPeru
Native distribution of Baccharis tola, 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 Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Chile North CLN
Peru PER

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.

Also published as 14 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 incarum (Wedd.) Perkins
  • Baccharis incarum (Wedd.) Cuatrec.
  • Baccharis incarum f. prostrata Cuatrec.
  • Baccharis incarum var. incarum
  • Baccharis incarum var. lejia (Phil.) Cabrera
  • Baccharis lejia Phil.
  • Baccharis magellanica var. subviscosa Kuntze
  • Baccharis magellanica var. viscosissima Kuntze
  • Baccharis microphylla var. incarum Wedd.
  • Baccharis microphylla var. microphylla
  • Baccharis tafiensis Heering
  • Baccharis tola var. incarum (Wedd.) Joch.Müll.
  • Baccharis tola var. lejia Reiche
  • Baccharis tola var. viscosissima (Kuntze) Joch.Müll.

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.

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