- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
- ›Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies
- ›Asteroideae
- ›paper daisies
- ›cudweeds, everlastings, and pussytoes
- ›Gamochaeta
Purple Cudweed
Gamochaeta purpurea
Gamochaeta purpurea, the purple cudweed, purple everlasting, or spoonleaf purple everlasting, is a plant native to North America....
From the article Gamochaeta purpurea on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
It is a small annual herb that produces lanceolate, alternate, wooly leaves and peg-shaped flowerheads in terminal clusters. The seeds are windborne. It can reach a height of approximately 0.4 meters (1.25 feet).
Range & habitat
It can grow on most any type of soil that is moderately moist, but prefers meadows, rocky terrain, and farmland.
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Gamochaeta purpurea in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 60957.