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Tanacetum balsamita L.

Common Name: COSTMARY, MINT-GERANIUM
Coefficient of Conservatism: *
Coefficient of Wetness: 5
Wetness Index: UPL
Physiognomy: Ad P-Forb

Chrysanthemum balsamita of Michigan Flora.

A pleasantly aromatic Eurasian species, occasionally escaped from cultivation and locally well established along roadsides and railroads; fields, banks, meadows; often but by no means always near old homesites. First collected in 1880 in Van Buren Co.

A form with very short rays is known but has not yet been collected in Michigan.

R. W. Smith

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Counties
Alpena
Bay
Benzie
Berrien
Cheboygan
Clinton
Emmet
Grand Traverse
Gratiot
Houghton
Isabella
Jackson
Kalamazoo
Kent
Keweenaw
Leelanau
Menominee
Oakland
Ogemaw
Schoolcraft
St. Clair
Van Buren
Washtenaw
Wayne

Citation:
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. January, 23, 2025
https://lsa-miflora-p.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/#/record/498