genus baccharis

1. Shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits;
   Often used for erosion control (synset 111958434)
   is a type of: asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
   member holonym:

   • baccharis halimifolia, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush, groundsel tree - a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
   • baccharis viminea, mule fat - California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deer
   • baccharis pilularis, chaparral broom, coyote brush, coyote bush, kidney wort - widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle
   belongs to: aster family, asteraceae, compositae, family asteraceae, family compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
   same as: baccharis

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