Asteraceae
Pluchea

Pluchea carolinensis (Jacq.) G.Don

First published in R.Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 3: 350 (1839)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical America. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as a medicine.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13542412/150117207

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit
A bushy shrub up to 3 m tall, the stems whitish-tomentose; leaves all petiolate, the blades elliptic, acute or blunt at the apex, the margins entire or with a few obscure glandular teeth, minutely puberulous and glandular on the upper (adaxial) surface, densely woolly tomentose and glandular beneath
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Corymbs mostly 8–15 cm across; heads 5–6 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Achenes strigillose; pappus-bristles ca. 3 mm long.
Distribution
Grand Cayman. Florida, the West Indies, Mexico to Venezuela, and islands of the Pacific.
Ecology
Occurs in brackish thickets and open waste ground.
[Cayman]

Distribution
Native to Colombia.
Conservation
IUCN Red List Assessment (2021): LC.
Ecology
Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: shrubland.
[UPFC]

Uses

Use Medicines
Medical uses.
[UPFC]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0