Pluchea rosea
| Pluchea rosea | |
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| Photo taken by Gil Nelson | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Pluchea |
| Species: | P. rosea |
| Binomial name | |
| Pluchea rosea Godfrey | |
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| Natural range of Pluchea rosea from USDA NRCS Plants Database. | |
Common name: Rosy camphorweed
Contents
Taxonomic notes
Synonym: Pluchea baccharis (Mill.) Pruski; USDA NRCS Plants Database
Description
"Perennial or annual, erect herbs, stems erect, densely short pubescent, terete to obscurely angled, strict to freely branched. Leaves alternate, serrate, the teeth-callous-thickened, petiolate to sessile. Heads corymbose. Involucres hemispheric to campanulate, many flowered; bracts imbricate, in several series. Flowers all discoid, perfect, very small. Nutlets small, cylindric, 5-ribbed; pappus bristles whitish, capillary, minutely, antrosely barbed, 3-4 mm long."[1]
"Pubescent perennial, 4-11 dm tall, usually strict. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong, 3-9 cm long, 1.3-5 cm wide, obtuse to acute, auriculate-clasping sessile. Heads sessile or essentially so in glomerules in compact corymbs, the lateral branches usually overtopping the central. Involucres 3-6 mm long; bracts acute. Corollas pink. Nutlets black, 0.5-1 mm long, densely pubescent."[1]
Distribution
P. rosea is distributed in the northern and central Bahamas, North America and the Caribbean.[2]
Ecology
Habitat
Habitats of P. rosea include swamp grasslands, river banks, edges of limestone sinks, and disturbed coastal prairies.[3][4] Associated species include Sapium sebiferum, Panicum virgatum, Symphyotrichum, Ludwigia linearis, Helianthus angustifolius, Rudbeckia nitida var. texana, Paspalum floridanum, and Rhynchospora.[4]
Pluchea rosea is an indicator species for the Peninsula Savannas community type as described in Carr et al. (2010).[5]
Phenology
P. rosea has been observed flowering May through September.[6][7]
Pollination and use by animals
The following Hymenoptera species were observed visiting flowers of Pluchea rosea at the Archbold Biological Station:[8]
Halictidae: Dieunomia heteropoda
Leucospididae: Leucospis robertsoni, L. slossonae
Megachilidae: Megachile albitarsis, M. brevis pseudobrevis
Pompilidae: Anoplius marginalis
Sphecidae: Bicyrtes capnoptera, B. insidiatrix, B. quadrifasciata, Cerceris bicornuta, C. blakei, C. fumipennis, C. rufopicta, Ectemnius rufipes ais, Isodontia exornata, Microbembex monodonta, Philanthus ventilabris, Prionyx thomae, Sphex ichneumoneus, Tachysphex similis, Tachytes pepticus, T. validus
Vespidae: Eumenes smithii, Euodynerus castigatus rubrivestris, E. hidalgo, Pachodynerus erynnis, Parancistrocerus fulvipes rufovestris, P. perennis anacardivora, P. salcularis rufulus, Polistes bellicosus, P. fuscatus, Stenodynerus fundatiformis, Zethus slossonae, Z. spinipes
Conservation, cultivation, and restoration
Cultural use
Photo Gallery
References and notes
Deyrup, M.A. and N.D. 2015. Database of observations of Hymenoptera visitations to flowers of plants on Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA.
(2008). "Essential Oil, from the Stems, Leaves and Flowers of Pluchea rosea Godfrey and Pluchea purpurascens (Sw.) DC." Journal of Essential Oil Research 20(6): 497-501.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 1062. Print.
- ↑ [[1]]Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve. Accessed: February 20, 2016
- ↑ Delta State University Herbarium. Accessed: February 2016.[2]. Collectors: T. Bradley, John Stevenson. States: North Carolina: Brunswick.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 University of Texas Herbarium. Accessed: February 2016. Collectors: B.L. Turner. States: Texas: Harris, Newton.
- ↑ Carr, S.C., K.M. Robertson, and R.K. Peet. 2010. A vegetation classification of fire-dependent pinelands of Florida. Castanea 75:153-189.
- ↑ [[3]]JSTOR. Accessed: February 20, 2016
- ↑ Nelson, G. PanFlora: Plant data for the eastern United States with emphasis on the Southeastern Coastal Plains, Florida, and the Florida Panhandle. www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ Accessed: 12 DEC 2016
- ↑ Deyrup, M.A. 2015. Database of observations of Hymenoptera visitations to flowering plants on Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA.
