Baccharis halimifolia Fred Heutte not only for rarity but

not only for rarity but for a rare combination of hardiness

especially in American gardens

evergreen and steady and generous with bloom

The fruit is also genuinely seedy

the plant sets dense clusters of small drupes in a luminous magenta-purple

Baccharis halimifolia Fred Heutte not only for rarity butBaccharis halimifolia is a plant of edges and thresholds, growing where the land loosens and blurs into water: salt marsh margins, ditches, tidal creeks, and back dunes. In fall, when most things are shutting down, the groundsel bush erupts into a soft storm of white seed fluff, like a marsh firework frozen mid explosion. This is the shrub that coastal Louisiana calls manglier, that botanists call groundsel bush or eastern baccharis, and that local