Chromolaena geraniifolia, the geraniumleaf thoroughwort, is a West Indian species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.Urban, Ignatz 1899. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 1: 458 in LatinBritton, Nathaniel Lord 1925. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 6: 288, as Osmia borinquensisKing, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1970. Phytologia 20: 201Tropicos, Chromolaena borinquensis (Britton) R.M. King & H. Rob.
Chromolaena geraniifolia is a shrub up to 150 cm (5 feet) high. It produces blue flower heads at the ends of branches.
The epithet geraniifolia means "with leaves like those of a Geranium."
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