Summary ⁴

Gamochaeta purpurea, the purple cudweed, purple everlasting, or spoonleaf purple everlasting, is a plant native to North America....

Description ⁵

Probably annual or biennial, white woolly herb with erect stem up to 40 cm tall. Leaves spathulate-obovate, up to 8 × 2 cm, decreasing in size towards the stem apex; margin entire or subentire. Inflorescence in a terminal spike with leaf-like bracts. Involucral bracts c. 3-seriate, lanceolate-oblong, c. 3 mm long. Florets small, numerous, brownish.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) 潘立傑 LiChieh Pan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/68821308@N00/5449880339
2. (c) LJ Moore-McClelland, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by LJ Moore-McClelland
3. (c) Bob O'Kennon, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bob O'Kennon
4. Adapted by Amber Leung from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamochaeta_purpurea
5. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30290110

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