It is a shrub that can grow up to 2.5m tall and has large leaves, which are longer than wide.

[2] Its medicinal properties are alluded to in the English names cure for all, bushy fleabane, and cough bush and the French guerit-tout.

[2] Pluchea carolinensis is common in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, and is naturalized in Florida, Hawaii and some other Pacific islands, and Taiwan.

[3] Pluchea carolinensis is said to grow on both wet and dry soil where it prefers to be in a sunny spot.

It is common to be cultivated in gardens in various countries in South and Central America.