General: Desert Baccharis (Baccharis sergiloides), is an upright, many-stemmed shrub with green, angular stems and fairly wide, notched leaves. The leaves are deciduous at flowering, so often the shrubs appears as green stems with dry flowerheads. A member of the sunflower family, but the flowers have no "petals," that is, only disk flowers are present.

Desert Baccharis is a fairly common component of vegetation communities in canyons, washes, along streams, and other moist places in the Lower Sonoran (Creosote-Bursage Flats) and Upper Sonoran (Mojave Desert Scrub) life zones.

Family: Sunflower (Asteraceae)