Gamochaeta purpurea (Linnaeus) Cabrera. Common name: Spoonleaf Purple Everlasting. Phenology: Late Mar-Sep. Habitat: Prairies, woodlands, fields, roadsides, pastures, disturbed areas. Distribution: ME west to MI, south to s. FL and e. TX; apparently disjunct in CA and OR, adventive in w. US, Mexico, South America, and elsewhere.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = Fl7, FNA19, GrPl, Il, K4, Mi, NcTx, NE, NY, POWO, Tat, Tn, Va, WH3, Freire et al (2024), Nesom (2004b), Nesom (2004c), Urtubey et al (2016); = Gamochaeta purpurea (L.) Cabrera var. purpurea — Pa; < Gamochaeta purpurea (L.) Cabrera — Arriagada (1998), Nesom (1990a); < Gnaphalium purpureum L. — F, Oh3, S, Tx, W, WV, (basionym); < Gnaphalium purpureum L. var. purpureum — C, G, RAB, SE1
Links to other floras: = Gamochaeta purpurea - FNA19
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: UPL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: UPL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Great Plains: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Midwest: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Northcentral & Northeast: FACU (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect annual of fields, roadsides, pastures and other open, weedy disturbed areas.
Stems: Stems densely white-furry; sometimes bent from the base and then turning upward.
Leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on the stem; oblong-lance-shaped to spoon-shaped; 1/3-2 1/3 in. long; green and with cobwebby hairs above, white-furry beneath. Stem leaves may wither by flowering time.
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Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) in a leafy, cylindric, terminal spike that elongates and branches over time; heads tiny, consisting of a group of minute yellowish- or purple-tipped tubular florets, packed tightly and surrounded by hairy, overlapping bracts that become brownish.
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Height: 4-15 in.
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description: Erect annual of fields, roadsides, pastures and other open, weedy disturbed areas.
stems: Stems densely white-furry; sometimes bent from the base and then turning upward.
leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on the stem; oblong-lance-shaped to spoon-shaped; 1/3-2 1/3 in. long; green and with cobwebby hairs above, white-furry beneath. Stem leaves may wither by flowering time.
inflorescence:
flowers: Composite flowers (heads) in a leafy, cylindric, terminal spike that elongates and branches over time; heads tiny, consisting of a group of minute yellowish- or purple-tipped tubular florets, packed tightly and surrounded by hairy, overlapping bracts that become brownish.
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