Baccharis Halimifolia (Noun)
Meaning
A shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The species known as baccharis halimifolia, a type of shrub native to salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and the West Indies, thrives in salty conditions.
- Baccharis halimifolia often gets tangled up in larger stands with the spartina cord grass which appears similar, growing knee to thigh-high thick throughout areas surrounding Chesapeake bay, offering thick thatches on up-sloped zones higher then sand plains down sloped adjacent tideland reaches beyond immediate Bay or lagoon seawalls at tide-mark within both mosaicked-sawgrassy wide reach upper slivers slippable even off reach-sat-tired all river creeks when near fresh groundwater saturated inland bogs throughout east/center in less less over upper back shore slopes south off beyond rivers connecting down.
- Plants of the Baccharis halimifolia species serve as larval host, and nectar source, for the Gray Hairstreak, thereby contributing beneficial resources for area ecosystems.
- Studies have been conducted at various localities including a particularly exposed coastal salt marsh overlying impermeable peat deposits with much pure areas thickly dominated and densely covered throughout by an extensive patch-mosaicked expanse thick to a hundred meters of Baccharis Halimifolia with pure masses of these saltmarsh-grown plants all sharply broken by sparse interspersed clumps of regular sized yet stunted Sueda maritime that sometimes had stunted scattered small Juncus standing few centimeters above J gerardii
- In the marshes where it grows, baccharis_halimifolia serves as a vital habitat component for specific endangered species, like the diamondback terrapin.