Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid II > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Eupatorieae > Genus: Campuloclinium

Has been grown in southern Africa in gardens but has become naturalised and is now a declared Category 1 invader plant in South Africa.

See 'Pompom weed' (ARC-PPRI site) for an excellent summary of the biology and status of this weed in South Africa.

See  Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 194.