groundsel bush

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1.groundsel bush - a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tuftsBaccharis halimifolia, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel treeBaccharis, genus Baccharis - shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion controlbush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems