Silverling

Baccharis glomeruliflora

Found in wet hammocks, swamp edges, marsh edges, interdune swales, wet pine savanna margins. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition What its natural habitat tells you

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

Profile 71%

Soil moisture: Somewhat dry to moist

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Baccharis glomeruliflora — bloom photograph — Jay Horn · CC BY 4.0 · Original photograph

At a glance

Life cycle: Perennial
Bloom: October to November

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Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Leaves

Height: NC species account not read yet.

Spread, light and leaves: no source found yet.

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 2 Mississippi counties.

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 Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

Swamps

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

Freshwater marshes

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

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

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Ecological relationships

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What these records mean

29CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS

Genus host records with ranges including MS · 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