Asteraceae
Spoonleaf purple everlasting
Gamochaeta purpurea
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Gamochaeta
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Common names
By language (7)
- Arabic
- برسية أرجوانية
- Chinese
- 鼠曲舅, 鼠麴舅, 合冠鼠曲, 合冠鼠曲草, 合冠鼠麹草, 合缨鼠麹草
- English
- Spoonleaf purple everlasting, Purple cudweed, Purple everlasting, Early cudweed
- Finnish
- Punajäkkärä
- Japanese
- ウスベニチチコグサ
- trv
- Galiq putung
- Welsh
- Edafeddog America
Synonyms
- Gamochaeta rosacea (I.M.Johnst.) Anderb.
- Gnaphalium columbianum Hieron.
- Gnaphalium hyemale Walter
- Gnaphalium littorale Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
- Gnaphalium obtusifolium Willd. ex Spreng.
- Gnaphalium purpureum L.
- Gnaphalium purpureum f. purpureum
- Gnaphalium purpureum subsp. purpureum
- Gnaphalium purpureum var. macrophyllum Greenm.
- Gnaphalium purpureum var. normale Kuntze
- Gnaphalium purpureum var. purpureum
- Gnaphalium retusum Poepp. ex DC.
- Gnaphalium rosaceum I.M.Johnst.
- Gnaphalium spicatum f. purpurascens Malme
- Gnaphalium sylvaticum f. sundana Miq.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual, Biennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Hawaii: introduced, Lower 48 states: native, Pacific Basin: introduced
Photos
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: James H. Miller, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.