Chromolaena geraniifolia explained

Chromolaena geraniifolia, the geraniumleaf thoroughwort, is a West Indian species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, part of the United States.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Chromolaena geraniifolia is a shrub up to 150 cm (5 feet) high. It produces blue flower heads at the ends of branches.^[1]

The epithet geraniifolia means "with leaves like those of a Geranium."

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/705380#page/462/mode/1up Urban, Ignatz 1899. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 1: 458
2. Britton, Nathaniel Lord 1925. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 6: 288, as Osmia borinquensis
3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13040389#page/211/mode/1up King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1970. Phytologia 20: 201
4. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2709749 Tropicos, Chromolaena borinquensis (Britton) R.M. King & H. Rob.