Pluchea indicaLess.

Indian camphorweed

WFO wfo-0000077706 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pluchea indica, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2022-03-05 / obs. 184833792
Pluchea indica, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178189101
Pluchea indica, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178189938
Pluchea indica, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178191913
Pluchea indica, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178171567
Pluchea indica, photographed by 高山田鼠
fig. f 高山田鼠, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177227056
Pluchea indica, photographed by Peter Brastow
fig. g Peter Brastow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173134518
Pluchea indica, photographed by Forest Botial-Jarvis
fig. h Forest Botial-Jarvis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170331989

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Pluchea indica is native: China Southeast, Hainan, Kazan-retto, Taiwan, Yemen, Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Cambodia, Christmas I., Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, South China Sea, Thailand, Vietnam, Northern Territory, Queensland China SoutheastHainanTaiwanYemenBangladeshCambodiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarPhilippinesThailandVietnamNorthern TerritoryQueensland Andaman Is.Christmas I.Nicobar Is.South China Sea
Native distribution of Pluchea indica, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
Christmas I. XMS
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
South China Sea SCS
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan CHH
Kazan-retto KZN
Taiwan TAI
Yemen YEM
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD

Not drawn on the map: Kazan-retto. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 72 in flower of 115 examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Pluchea indica 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. 72 of 115 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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 8 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 indica L.
  • Conyza corymbosa Roxb.
  • Conyza foliolosa Wall. ex DC.
  • Conyza indica Blume ex DC.
  • Conyza indica var. indica
  • Conyza indica var. integerrima Miq.
  • Erigeron denticulatus Burm.f.
  • Pluchea indica subsp. indica

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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