Wild Flowering Plants
Asteraceae family Chromolaena odorata (Linnaeus) R. M. King and H. Robinson, Phytologia 20(3): 204. 1970. Bas.: Eupatorium odoratum Linnaeus (1759). Fléwi Nwèl Indigenous very comon shrub of dry, open areas. Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Antigua, Saba, St. Eustatius, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie Galante, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Grenada, rest of West Indies, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. It is on the "100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species" list. Here it can be common in secondary degraded savanna. Local medicinal uses |