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Salt Marsh Fleabane

Pluchea camphorata. Composite Family.

Stem.--Two to five feet high. Leaves.--Pale; thickish; oblong or lance-shaped; toothed. Flower-heads.--Pink; small; in flat-topped clusters; composed entirely of tubular flowers.

In the salt marshes where we find the starry sea pinks and the feathery sea lavender, we notice a pallid-looking plant whose pink flower-buds are long in opening. It is late summer or autumn before the salt marsh flebane is fairly in blossom. There is a strong fragrance to the plant which hardly suggests camphor, despite its specific title.