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Baccharis trinervis Pers.

Asteraceae · Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast +26

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Baccharis trinervis Pers.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Lam.) Pers.

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
13.0°C
Record low 11.0 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
26°C
Apr and May at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,772mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
28–38DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
A sharp rainy season, May to October (the habitat's months, not shifted), in a year of even temperature. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

About the genus · Baccharis

Baccharis is a genus of perennials and shrubs in the aster family (Asteraceae). They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true brooms. They are not at all related to these however, but belong to an entirely different lineage of eudicots. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Baccharis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,338 mm of 1,780 mm) falls in May to October. The temperature curve is flat, 2.7 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

1,780 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,338 mm of it May to October. Wettest month September at 291 mm, driest month March at 59 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,184 mm to 3,322 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,772 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,780 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 38 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 23, the highest 90th-percentile month 45).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 13.0 °C, the absolute minimum 11.0 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 27.8 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 14.8 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 8.7 °C to 20.7 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 26.0 °C in April (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 13.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -80 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Baccharis trinervis through the yearWarmest months April and May, mean daily high 26 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 14.8 °C; 1,780 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.5°10°15°20°25°30°35°27.8° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER11.0° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 28–38RH 62–68%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 352 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C23 / 19–2924 / 20–2925 / 21–3026 / 22–3126 / 21–3125 / 21–3024 / 21–2925 / 21–2924 / 20–2924 / 20–2824 / 19–2823 / 19–28
Night °C15 / 9–2115 / 9–2116 / 10–2117 / 12–2217 / 13–2217 / 13–2217 / 12–2217 / 12–2217 / 13–2217 / 12–2116 / 10–2115 / 9–21
Rain mm62 / 10–17961 / 14–17559 / 12–23779 / 27–302145 / 51–365252 / 63–397230 / 49–395237 / 47–389291 / 74–437183 / 96–379105 / 26–30276 / 13–222
DLI30 / 24–3633 / 28–3836 / 30–4338 / 27–4538 / 24–4133 / 24–3835 / 25–3935 / 28–3932 / 28–3630 / 26–3529 / 24–3528 / 23–34
RH %65 / 55–7063 / 55–7062 / 55–7063 / 55–7164 / 59–7167 / 63–7166 / 61–7266 / 60–7168 / 62–7367 / 62–7366 / 60–7266 / 57–70
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 352 grid cells holding the 431 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1702:2134 (4.875, -73.275). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 11.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 13.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 27.8 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 352 distinct grid cells holding 431 of the 431 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1702:2134 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 5.00_-73.125, lapse-corrected -80 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1467 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Paraguay · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker16.82, -92.45 · in the densest population, 352 records (25% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub, shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1394 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 431 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 1228 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 6 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. 963 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 1394 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) EstebanMH, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Eric Schmidt, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Raúl A. Ruiz M., some rights reserved (CC BY).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Senega paniculata Senega paniculata Polygalaceae Photo: CC BY, Forest & Kim StarrSolanum wendlandii Solanum wendlandii Giant potato-creeper Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezTillandsia juncea Tillandsia juncea Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Francisco Emilio Roldán VelascoIresine diffusa Iresine diffusa Juba's bush Photo: CC0, author not statedBlechnum polypodioides Blechnum polypodioides Narrowleaf midsorus fern Photo: CC BY, Felipe BryantPilea pubescens Pilea pubescens Urticaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens Riella

Other Baccharis 41 in the reference

Baccharis aliena Baccharis aliena Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Magdalena Carabio FotiBaccharis angustifolia Baccharis angustifolia Narrow-leaf baccharis Photo: CC BY, Neal KelsoBaccharis articulata Baccharis articulata Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Pablo H CapovillaBaccharis bogotensis Baccharis bogotensis Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch UribeBaccharis boliviensis Baccharis boliviensis Asteraceae Photo: CC0, Alfredo F. Fuentes ClarosBaccharis caespitosa Baccharis caespitosa Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Yuri SofronovBaccharis conferta Baccharis conferta Chinese brush Photo: CC BY, Forest Botial-JarvisBaccharis crispa Baccharis crispa Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, LauuBaccharis dioica Baccharis dioica Broombush false willow Photo: CC BY-SA, Stan ShebsBaccharis dracunculifolia Baccharis dracunculifolia Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Victoria ProsdocimoBaccharis genistelloides Baccharis genistelloides Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Carlo BresciaBaccharis glomeruliflora Baccharis glomeruliflora Silverling Groundsel Bush Photo: CC BY, xanderferret all 42 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Baccharis cinerea; Baccharis divergens; Baccharis eggersii; Baccharis laxa; Baccharis oxyphylla and 18 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
Pers.
Native to
Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf +25
Wild records
1394 in range · 1228 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF's key 3129535 is Baccharis trinervis (Lam.) Pers.; the page links Kew's Baccharis trinervis Pers., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 8 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (7 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-21
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 5.00_-73.125, lapse-corrected -80 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 157 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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