evergreen to semi-evergreen
and the story is part of the plant
and Asimina alone among them ventures north into the sandy uplands of the American Southeast
their rising sap has long meant sweetness
and increasingly hard-to-find tree for the collector of native woody plants
Baccharis dioica Nuccio's Nurseries evergreen to semi-evergreenA rare, semi evergreen shrub, Baccharis dioica resembles the common groundsel bush, Baccharis halimifolia, but is quite distinct. In 1979, just before Hurricane Frederic did tremendous damage to the Mobile, Alabama area, we found this plant growing behind the dunes on Dauphin Island. Not recognizing the shrub, we sent material to the recognized authority on the genus at Southern Methodist University, who identified the plant as Baccharis dioica, a