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Saltwater False-willow

Baccharis angustifolia

In the Carolinas and Georgia, found in interdune swales, wet hammocks, marsh edges. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Native to Louisiana. How scores work Is it native here?

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Height
About 13 feet
Light
4 or more hours of direct sun
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At a glance

Leaves
Deciduous
Bloom
September to October
Fruiting season
Fall

Not yet recorded · Spread · Soil · Life cycle

Recorded in 8 Louisiana parishes.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

Freshwater marshes

Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water.

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Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

29CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including LA

Genus host records with ranges including LA · Baccharis

  • Anavitrinella pampinariaCommon Gray, Cranberry Spanworm
  • Condica vidensWhite-Dotted Groundling
  • Cremastobombycia solidaginisGoldenrod Leafminer
  • Ctenoplusia oxygrammaSharp-Stigma Looper Moth
  • Dichomeris serrativittellaToothed Dichomeris
  • Epiblema discretivanaDescriminating Epiblema
  • Estigmene acreaSalt Marsh Moth, Acrea Moth
  • Eupithecia miserulataCommon Eupithacia, Common Pug
  • Eusarca fundariaDark-Edged Eusarca
  • Hellinsia balanotesBaccharis Borer Plume Moth, Groundsel Plume Moth
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  • Hellinsia kellicottiiGoldenrod Borer Plume Moth
  • Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
  • Iridopsis defectariaBrown-Shaded Gray, Willow Looper
  • Lioptilodes albistriolatusMousy Plume Moth
  • Macaria varadariaSouthern Angle
  • Platynota stultanaOmnivorous Leafroller
  • Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
  • Prionoxystus robiniaeCarpenterworm Moth, Black Locust Borer, Cottonwood Borer
  • Sonia paraplesianaHebrew Sonia
  • Sparganothis sulfureanaSparganothis Fruitworm Moth, Sulfur Leafroller, False Yellow-Head
  • Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
  • Spodoptera ornithogalliYellow-Striped Armyworm Moth, Cotton Cutworm
  • Spragueia onagrusBlack-Dotted Spragueia
  • Tallula watsoniWatson's Tallula
  • Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformisEvergreen Bagworm Moth
  • Aristotelia ivae
  • Bucculatrix ivella
  • Hellinsia lacteodactylus
  • Lorita baccharivora
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
21BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Baccharis

Individual names are not available yet.

Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
6Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Baccharis

  • Andrena hirticincta
  • Colletes simulans
  • Colletes thysanellae
  • Dieunomia nevadensis
  • Perdita octomaculata
  • Protandrena albitarsis
Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Asteraceae
Flower color
White
Growth rate
Moderate
Growth habit
Several stems
Foliage color
Green
Fruit begins
Fall
Fruit ends
Fall

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Growing sources and scope
  • Bloom · “September to October” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition (ranked first; USDA PLANTS differs) · Carolinas and Georgia
  • Flower color · “White” · USDA PLANTS · Nationwide species characteristics; local growing conditions may vary
  • Foliage color · “Green” · USDA PLANTS · Nationwide species characteristics; local growing conditions may vary
  • Fruit begins · “Fall” · USDA PLANTS · Nationwide species characteristics; local growing conditions may vary
  • Fruit ends · “Fall” · USDA PLANTS · Nationwide species characteristics; local growing conditions may vary
  • Growth habit · “Several stems” · USDA PLANTS · Nationwide species characteristics; local growing conditions may vary
  • Growth rate · “Moderate” · USDA PLANTS · Nationwide species characteristics; local growing conditions may vary
  • Height · “About 13 feet” · USDA PLANTS · Nationwide species characteristics; local growing conditions may vary
  • Leaf retention · “Deciduous” · USDA PLANTS · Nationwide species characteristics; local growing conditions may vary
  • primary_flower_color · “white” · USDA PLANTS
Also known as

Saltwater False willow

Conservation status

Louisiana rankSNR
Global rankG4
LA statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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