Common names:

• consumption-weed  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• eastern baccharis  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• groundselbush  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• groundseltree  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• Sea Island-myrtle  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• sea-myrtle  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• tree groundsel  (Source: BSBI) - English
• waterbrush  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• Kreuzstrauch  (Source: Zander Ency) - German
• vassoura  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic Importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals ()
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Noxweed Aust; Invasive Pl Spec)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Nova Scotia]
• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Oklahoma (http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/baha.htm)]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Veracruz]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Bahamas, Cuba


Naturalized

Asia-Temperate

• CAUCASUS: Georgia

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Belgium, Netherlands
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Spain

References:

1. Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
2. Adams, C. Flowering plants of Jamaica. 1972 (F Jam)
3. Allan, H. H. B. et al. Flora of New Zealand. (F NZeal)
4. Botanical Society of the British Isles BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). (BSBI)
5. Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:238.
6. Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
7. Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. 1970 (F Tex)
8. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008 (Zander Ency)
9. Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
10. FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
11. Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
12. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
13. Holm, L. et al. A geographical atlas of world weeds. 1979 (Atlas WWeed)
14. Howard, R. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
15. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
16. León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier) Flora de Cuba. 1946-1962; suppl. (F CubaLeon)
17. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
18. Meyer, F. G. et al. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. 1994 (L CultWPl SE US)
19. Mueller, J. 2010. World checklist of Baccharis. 2010- (L Baccharis)
20. Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson Noxious weeds of Australia. 1992 (Noxweed Aust)
21. Radford, A. E. et al. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
22. Radford, A. E. et al., eds. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)
23. Rehder, A. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. (Rehder)
24. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
25. Weber, E. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003 (Invasive Pl Spec)
26. Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)

Images:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image