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Pluchea odorata (L.) Cass.
Sweetscent

Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer

Family: Asteraceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Herb

Perennation: Annual

Native Range: Southern United States, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and northern South America.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Secure

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

Comments: Visit our Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information and images. See a 2019 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog on dominant mudflat species including sweetscent.

Synonyms: P. purpurascens of Small (1913), not (Sw.) DC.

Other data on Pluchea odorata available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Pluchea odorata has been found in the following 97 conservation areas :
A.D. Doug Barnes Park	Present	Native
Allapattah Flats Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Babcock Ranch Preserve	Present	Native
Bahia Honda State Park	Present	Native
Big Cypress National Preserve	Present	Native
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park	Present	Native
Bill Sadowski Park	Present	Native
Biscayne National Park	Present	Native
Biscayne National Park, Florida Keys Section	Present	Native
Black Point Park and Marina	Present	Native
Blowing Rocks Preserve	Present	Native
Bocilla Preserve	Present	Native
Bonair Beach Parcel, Martin County	Present	Native
Caloosahatchee Creeks Preserve	Present	Native
Caloosahatchee Regional Park	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer	Present	Native
Cayo Costa State Park	Present	Native
Cedar Point Environmental Park	Present	Native
Chapman Field Park	Present	Native
Coconut Creek Maple Swamp Natural Area	Present	Native
Collier-Seminole State Park	Present	Native
Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW)	Present	Native
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary	Present	Native
Crandon Park	Present	Native
Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge	Reported
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Deering Estate at Cutler	Present	Native
Doris Davis Forman Wilderness Preserve Natural Area	Present	Native
Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park	Present	Native
Dupuis Reserve	Present	Native
Enchanted Forest Park	Present	Native
Estero Bay Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Everglades National Park	Present	Native
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Fern Forest Nature Center	Present	Native
Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Fred C. Babcock-Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Frenchman's Forest Natural Area	Present	Native
Frog Pond/L-31 N Transition Lands	Present	Native
Greynolds Park	Present	Native
Halpatiokee Regional Park	Present	Native
Highland Oaks Park	Present	Native
Hillsboro Pineland Natural Area	Present	Native
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park	Present	Native
J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park	Present	Native
Jonathan Dickinson State Park	Present	Native
Juno Dunes Natural Area	Present	Native
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area	Present	Native
Koreshan State Historic Site	Present	Native
Lake Okeechobee Marshes	Present	Native
Larry and Penny Thompson Park	Present	Native
Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park	Reported
Long Key State Park	Reported
Loxahatchee River Natural Area	Present	Native
Loxahatchee Slough Natural Area	Present	Native
Matanzas Pass Preserve	Present	Native
Matheson Hammock Park	Present	Native
Milton E. Thompson Park	Present	Native
Miramar Pineland	Present	Native
Mound Key Archaeological State Park	Present	Native
Muscara	Present	Native
National Key Deer Refuge	Present	Native
Navy Wells Pineland 23	Present	Native
Navy Wells Pineland Preserve	Present	Native
Nicodemus Slough	Present	Native
Okeeheelee Park	Present	Native
Peck Lake Park	Present	Native
Picayune Strand State Forest	Assumed to be Present	Native
Pond Apple Slough Natural Area	Present	Native
Prairie Pines Preserve	Present	Native
Railhead Scrub Preserve	Present	Native
Rocky Point Hammock	Recorded as Present in Error
Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	Present	Native
Royal Palm Beach Pines Natural Area	Present	Native
Savannas Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Seabranch Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Secret Woods Nature Center	Present	Native
Sewell Park	Present	Native
Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve	Present	Native
SOCSOUTH	Present	Native
South Dade Wetlands	Present	Native
St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Sugarloaf Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Tall Cypress Natural Area	Present	Native
Tradewinds Park & Stables	Present	Native
Tree Island Park	Present	Native
Tropical Park	Present	Native
West Lake Park/Anne Kolb Nature Center	Present	Native
Wild Turkey Strand Preserve	Present	Native
Woodmont Natural Area	Present	Native
Yamato Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
Yellow Fever Creek Preserve	Present	Native

	Occurrence	Native Status
Pluchea odorata has been found in the following 11 counties :
Broward County		Native
Charlotte County		Native
Collier County		Native
Glades County		Native
Hendry County		Native
Lee County		Native
Martin County		Native
Miami-Dade County		Native
Monroe County (Keys)		Native
Monroe County (Mainland)		Native
Palm Beach County		Native