EPPO Global Database

Baccharis halimifolia(BACHA)

Distribution details in France

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2021: Present, restricted distribution
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present, restricted distribution (2011-06)
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2009/205) : considered as widely distributed in the South of France (Provence and Languedoc).

Fournier (1936) indicated that B. halimifolia had been introduced in France in 1683. During the second half of the 19th century, it was widely recommended as an ornamental garden plant in numerous nursery catalogues and horticultural books. In the 1950s, B. halimifolia was very common in the South-West of France, especially abundant all around the Arcachon bassin (Gujan, between Andernos and Arès, around Pitchourlin). At the same time in Brittany, it was also spreading.
In the middle of the 1970s, it was considered as completely naturalized along the French Atlantic coast (Jovet & de Vilmorin, 1975) and occured in nine departments: Ille-et-Vilaine, Côtes-d'Armor, Finistère, Morbihan, Loire-Atlantique, Vendée, Gironde, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
During the 1980s, the first records of B. halimifolia were reported along the Mediterranean coast, in the Roussillon (Amigo, 1983). B. halimifolia was recorded more recently along the Languedoc coast (Salabert & Gastesoleil, 1991).
Recently it also appeared on the shores of the North Sea in the estuary of the Slack (Ambleteuse) and Wimereux (Toussaint, pers. com., 2012).

EPPO Reporting Service (2021/206)
References
* Amigo J-J (1983) Contribution à l'étude de la flore du département des Pyrénées-Orientales Le Monde des Plantes 413-414, 12-13.

* ARPE, CBNMP (2009) Plantes envahissantes – Guide d’identification des principales espèces aquatiques et de berges en Provence et Languedoc. Agence Régionale Pour l’Environnement Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur.113 p.
http://www.arpe-paca.org/info.asp?InNum=In00002005=Th00000251

* Brunel S, Schrader G, Brundu G, Fried G (2010) Emerging invasive alien plants for the Mediterranean Basin. Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 40(2), 219-238.

* Flora Europaea.

* Fournier P (1936) Les Quatre flore de France.

* Jovet P & De Vilmorin R (1975) Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France par l’Abbé Coste, 3ème supplément. Albert Blanchard, Paris, 337 pp.

* Lázaro-Lobo A, Moles AT, Fried G, Verloove F, Antonio Campos J, Herrera M, Goñi E, Bioret F, Buffa G, Fantinato E, Sentinella A, Zalucki MP, Mayfield M, Smith T, Catling A, Zalucki JM, Lucardi RD, Shoemaker CM, Mason DS, Ervin GN (2021) Phenotypic differentiation among native, expansive and introduced populations influences invasion success. Journal of Biogeography, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14252

* NPPO of France (2011-06).

* Salabert J & Gastesoleil J (1991) Contribution à l'inventaire de la flore de l'Hérault. Le Monde des Plantes 442, 16-18.
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Belgium Present, restricted distribution view...
Italy Present, no details view...
Spain Present, no details view...