Habit: Chromolaena bahamensis a woody perennial shrub to 3 meters in height (usually smaller). Vegetation short pubescent during growth. The leaves are arranged oppositely, to 8 cm in length, lanceolate to ovate, with an entire to slightly crenate leaf margin toward the apex, with a tapering leaf base and rounded to obtuse apex. The leaves are glandular punctuate abaxially and visibly 3 veined.
The complete, perfect, actinomorphic flowers are arranged in corymbs of heads subtended an involucre made of 4-5 series of glandular, lanceolate phyllaries. The calyx is modified as hairs forming a brown pappus. The corolla has 5, fused with light blue to lavender petals with acute lobes. There are 5 stamens fused to the base of the corolla. The ovary is inferior with a single locule. The fruit is an achene at maturity that retains the modified calyx (pappus).
Habitat: Chromolaena bahamensis grows in open areas within Pine Woodlands and the margins of Dry Broadleaf Evergreen Formations.
Distribution: Chromolaena bahamensis is endemic to the Lucayan Archipelago known to occurring in the central and northern island groupings.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage: Chromolaena bahamensis is not known to be used medicinally in the Bahamas.