Sweetscent, shrubby camphor-weed

Conyza odorata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 1213. 1759

Annuals or perennials, 20–200 cm; fibrous-rooted. Stems stipitate- to sessile-glandular (commonly with eglandular but viscid hairs as well), not arachnose. Leaves petiolate or sessile; blades (succulent, drying thin) lance-ovate to ovate or ovate-elliptic, mostly 4–15 × 1–7 cm, margins shallowly serrate, faces glabrate to moderately or densely pubescent (hairs crinkly). Heads in corymbiform arrays (flat-topped to rounded, often layered, sometimes incorporating relatively long, leafy, lateral branches, clusters of heads terminal on branches, some lateral branches nearly equaling or surpassing central portions). Involucres cylindro-campanulate, 5–6 × 4–8(–10) mm. Phyllaries usually cream, sometimes purplish, minutely sessile-glandular (outer usually also puberulent), sometimes glabrate. Corollas pink to rosy or purple. Pappi persistent, bristles distinct. 2. = 20.

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora): North America, South America, w Africa, Pacific Islands.