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Read more about Seashore Elder at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

This plant is often the most oceanward perennial plant, often the first perennial to colonize the upper beach or incipient dunes on island-end flats, where it occurs with such upper beach annuals as Euphorbia polygonifolia, Euphorbia bombensis, Cakile edentula, and Amaranthus pumilus, per Weakley's Flora (2022)

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Iva imbricata   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Iva imbricata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Iva imbricata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-01-002:

Iva imbricata   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Iva imbricata

COMMON NAME:
Seashore Elder, Dune Marsh-elder, Seacoast Marsh-elder

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ivim_001_lvd

        

JK Marlow    jkm0502e_35

February    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

JK Marlow    jkm0309q_09

September    Horry County    SC

Myrtle Beach State Park

JK Marlow    jkm0309q_10

September    Horry County    SC

Myrtle Beach State Park

Flowers in the axils of upper bracteal leaves; fruit a yellow-brown achene, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).

JK Marlow    jkm0309q_30

September    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

Shrub 0.5-1m tall, decumbent at base, branched mostly at base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

JK Marlow    jkm0309q_31

September    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

Often the most ocean-ward perennial plant, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

JK Marlow    jkm231104_6609

November    Georgetown County    SC

JK Marlow    jkm231104_6611

November    Georgetown County    SC

Leaves elliptic, occasionally toothed, smooth, thick and succulent, with 3 veins, per Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Iva imbricata   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Iva imbricata   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Iva imbricata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Iva imbricata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-01-002:
Iva imbricata   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Iva imbricata