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Camphor pluchea
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Camphor pluchea

Pluchea camphorata
In the United States: Native · also called camphorweed, marsh-fleabane, plowman's-wort

Produces clusters of small pinkish-purple discoid flower heads in late summer and fall in moist to wet habitats. Visited by long-tongued bees and other pollinators for nectar; not a major contributor to honey flows. Annual or short-lived perennial adapted to wetland edges and disturbed moist soils.

Nectarlow
Pollenlow
Bloom (US) August–October
TypePerennial
Sunfull

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