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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Chromolaena odorata
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) R. M. King & H. Robinson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=20: 204. 1970
|year=1970
}}
|common_names=Crucita
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eupatorium odoratum
|authority=Linnaeus
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Osmia odorata
|authority=(Linnaeus) Schultz-Bipontinus
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae;Chromolaena;Chromolaena odorata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chromolaena]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chromolaena odorata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 544
|treatment_page=page 545
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>or subshrubs, mostly 80–250 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect or sprawling to subscandent, hispidulous to coarsely short-pilose. <b>Petioles</b> 5–20 mm. <b>Leaf</b> blades (3-nerved) narrowly lanceolate to deltate-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 3–10 × 1–4 cm, margins coarsely dentate to subentire. <b>Heads</b> usually 5–50+ in (terminal or lateral) corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric, (7–)8–10 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–6(–8) series, apices of the inner appressed, rounded to truncate (sometimes slightly white-petaloid or expanded). <b>Corollas</b> purplish to light blue to nearly white or slightly pinkish. <b>2n</b> = 40, 60, 70.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mostly Oct–Dec, sometimes year round.
|habitat=Hammocks, thickets, pinelands, cypress-slash pine flats, canal banks, disturbed sites
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies.
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name=Chromolaena odorata
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) R. M. King & H. Robinson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Osmia odorata
|basionyms=Eupatorium odoratum
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering mostly Oct–Dec, sometimes year round.
|habitat=Hammocks, thickets, pinelands, cypress-slash pine flats, canal banks, disturbed sites
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1970
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Eupatorieae
|genus=Chromolaena
|species=Chromolaena odorata
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