''Pluchea'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s in the tribe

Inuleae Inuleae is a tribe of flowering plants in the subfamily Asteroideae. Genera Inuleae genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database as of April 2022: *'' Adelostigma'' *'' Allagopappus'' *'' Allopterigeron'' *'' Amblyocarpum'' *'' Antip ...

within the family

Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...

. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely

fleabane Fleabane is a common name for some flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Most are in the subfamily Asteroideae: * '' Conyza'' (butterweeds or horseweeds: Astereae) * '' Erigeron'' (Astereae) * '' Inula'' ("yellowheads": Inuleae) * '' Pluche ...

s. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are called sourbushes. There are plants of many forms, from annual and perennial herbs to

shrub A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple ...

s and

tree In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, e.g., including only woody plants with secondary growth, only ...

s, and there is variation in the

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

of leaves, flowers, and fruits.Perera, W., et al. (2007)
Flavonols from leaves of ''Pluchea carolinensis'' (Jacq.) G.Don (Asteraceae).
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'' 35(3), 68-73.Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 478 ''Pluchea'' Cassini
/ref>Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 847 阔苞菊属 kuo bao ju shu ''Pluchea'' Cassini
/ref> The genus was named for the French naturalist Abbé

Noël-Antoine Pluche Noël-Antoine Pluche (13 November 1688 – 19 November 1761), known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest. He is now known for his ''Spectacle de la nature'', a most popular work of natural history. Biography Pluche, son of a baker, was born ...

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Pluchea arabica ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' (Boiss.) Qaiser & Lack - Yemen, Oman * ''

Pluchea arguta ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' Boiss. - India, Iran * '' Pluchea baccharis'' (Mill.) Pruski – rosy camphorweed - southeastern United States, Bahamas, Cuba,

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, Central America * ''

Pluchea baccharoides ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Australia * ''

Pluchea bequaertii ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' Robyns -central Africa * ''

Pluchea biformis ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are ca ...

'' DC. * ''

Pluchea bojeri ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' (DC.) Humbert - Madagascar * ''

Pluchea camphorata ''Pluchea camphorata'', known as camphorweed or marsh-fleabane, is a small flowering herbaceous annual plant of the family Asteraceae. Description ''Pluchea camphorata'' is a small herbaceous plant that grows approximately tall, with blooms ...

'' (L.) DC. – camphor pluchea - eastern + central United States, Mexico * ''

Pluchea carolinensis ''Pluchea carolinensis'' is a plant in the genus ''Pluchea''. Description ''Pluchea carolinensis'' is a plant from the genus ''Pluchea'', the species was first described by the Scottish botanist George Don. It is a shrub that can grow up to 2.5m ...

'' (Jacq.) G.Don – cure-for-all - Latin America, West Indies,

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Pluchea chingoyo ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' (Kunth) DC. - Peru, Chile * ''

Pluchea dentex ''Pluchea dentex'' is a plant in the Asteraceae family, first described in 1867 by George Bentham, from specimens collected in Queensland by Robert Brown at Broad Sound and Thirsty Sound, by Ferdinand von Mueller at the source of the Gilbert R ...

'' R.Br. ex Benth. - Australia * ''

Pluchea dioscoridis ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' (L.) DC. - Egypt, Middle East * ''

Pluchea dodonaeifolia ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' (Hook. & Arn.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. - Bolivia * ''

Pluchea domingensis ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' Klatt -

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Pluchea dunlopii ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' Hunger - Australia * ''

Pluchea eupatorioides ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' Kurz - China,

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* '' Pluchea ferdinandi-muelleri'' Domin - Australia * '' Pluchea fiebrigii'' H.Rob. & Cuatrec. - Bolivia * '' Pluchea foetida'' (L.) DC. – stinking camphorweed - southeastern United States, Yucatán Peninsula * †'' Pluchea glutinosa''

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(extinct) * '' Pluchea grevei'' (Baill.) Humbert - Madagascar * '' Pluchea heterophylla'' Vatke - tropical Africa * '' Pluchea hirsuta'' (L.) Less. - India * '' Pluchea indica'' (L.) Less. – Indian camphorweed, Indian fleabane - India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia * '' Pluchea kelleri'' (Thell.) Thulin - Somalia * '' Pluchea lanceolata'' (DC.) Oliv. & Hiern - India, Afghanistan, parts of western Africa * '' Pluchea lanuginosa'' C.B.Clarke - India * '' Pluchea laxiflora'' Hook. & Arn. ex Baker * '' Pluchea linearifolia'' C.B.Clarke - eastern India * '' Pluchea littoralis'' Thulin * ''

Pluchea lucens ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' Thulin * '' Pluchea lycioides'' (Hiern) Merxm. - South Africa * '' Pluchea mexicana'' (R.K.Godfrey) G.L.Nesom -

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* '' Pluchea microcephala'' R.K.Godfrey - Bolivia, Peru, Argentina * '' Pluchea nogalensis'' Chiov. - Somalia * '' Pluchea oblongifolia'' DC. - Brazil * '' Pluchea odorata'' (L.) Cass. – sweetscent, saltmarsh fleabane - from

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to Bolivia * '' Pluchea ovalis'' (Pers.) DC. - Arabian Peninsula, Morocco * '' Pluchea parvifolia'' (A.Gray) R.K.Godfrey -

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* '' Pluchea polygonata'' (DC.) Gagnep. - India, Indochina * '' Pluchea pteropoda'' Hemsl. ex Hemsl - China, Indochina * '' Pluchea rosea'' R.K.Godfrey - Mexico, Honduras, south-central + southeastern United States * '' Pluchea rubelliflora'' (F.Muell.) B.L.Rob. - Australia * '' Pluchea rufescens'' (DC.) A.J.Scott -

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* '' Pluchea sagittalis'' Less. – wingstem camphorweed - South America, West Indies * '' Pluchea salicifolia'' (Mill.) S.F.Blake - Mexico, Guatemala * '' Pluchea sarcophylla'' Chiov. - Somalia * ''

Pluchea scabrida ''Pluchea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely fleabanes. Some, such as ''P. carolinensis'' and ''P. odorata'', are c ...

'' DC. - Philippines * ''

Pluchea sericea ''Pluchea sericea'', commonly called arrowweed or ''cachanilla'' (Mexico), is a rhizomatous evergreen shrub of riparian areas in the lower Sonoran Desert and surrounding areas. It is common in the lower Colorado River valley of California, Nevada ...

'' (Nutt.) Coville – arrowweed - southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico * '' Pluchea somaliensis'' (Thell.) Thulin - Somalia * '' Pluchea sordida'' (Vatke) Oliv. & Hiern - tropical Africa * '' Pluchea succulenta'' Mesfin - Somalia * '' Pluchea tertanthera'' F.Muell. - Australia * '' Pluchea tomentosa'' DC. - India * '' Pluchea wallichiana'' DC. - India * '' Pluchea yucatanensis'' G.L.Nesom – Yucatán camphorweed - Yucatán Peninsula incl Belize ; Formerly included * '' Allopterigeron filifolius'' (F.Muell.) Dunlop (as ''P. filifolia'' F.Muell.) * '' Baccharis decussata'' (Klatt) Hieron. (as ''P. decussata'' Klatt) * ''

Cratystylis conocephala ''Cratystylis conocephala'', the blue bush daisy, blue bush, grey bush, and round leaved greybush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to southeast Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria. I ...

'' (F.Muell.) S.Moore (as ''P. conocephala'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell.) * ''

Neurolaena lobata ''Neurolaena lobata'', commonly known as jackass bitters, is a species of perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies. Distribution and habitat ''Neurolaena lobat ...

'' (L.) Cass. (as ''P. symphytifolia'' (Mill.) Gillis) * ''

Streptoglossa liatroides ''Streptoglossa liatroides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a low, spreading or upright perennial herb with pink or red to purple flowers. It grows in South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and the No ...

'' (Turcz.) Dunlop (as ''P. ligulata'' F.Muell.) * ''

Streptoglossa macrocephala ''Streptoglossa macrocephala'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a spreading or upright perennial herb with pink to purple flowers. It grows in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Description ...

'' (F.Muell.) Dunlop (as ''P. macrocephala'' F.Muell.) * ''

Streptoglossa odora ''Streptoglossa odora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a spreading, perennial herb with pink or bluish-purple flowers. It grows in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Description ''Strept ...

'' (F.Muell.) Dunlop (as ''P. odora'' F.Muell.) * '' Thespidium basiflorum'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. (as ''P. basiflora'' F.Muell.)

References

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q1930933 Asteraceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Henri Cassini