Character

Baccharis douglasii

Baccharis salicifolia

Baccharis sarothroides

fruit surface appearance

pericarp covered
with glands,
brown with 5 low ribs ± same color as pericarp

pericarp glabrous,
waxy-looking,
light brown with 5 low whitish ribs

pericarp glabrous,
brown with 8–10 distinctly raised, lighter-colored ribs