Everlastings
Botanical name: Gamochaeta
Everlastings
Botanical name: Gamochaeta
Description
Gamochaeta antillana is an annual herb up to 40 cm tall, producing a taproot. Leaves are up to 4 cm long. The plant forms many small flower heads in elongated arrays and also in tightly packed clumps. Each head contains 3–5 purple disc flowers but no ray flowers. 
Species of Everlastings
Pennsylvania everlasting
Native to South America, the pennsylvania everlasting became widely naturalized worldwide. It is an annual herbaceous plant from the sunflower family that thrives well in disturbed areas. It has a woolly appearance- from its greenish and spiky flower heads to its leaves and lower surface covered in white hairs.
Narrowleaf purple everlasting
Gamochaeta antillana is an annual herb up to 40 cm tall, producing a taproot. Leaves are up to 4 cm long. The plant forms many small flower heads in elongated arrays and also in tightly packed clumps. Each head contains 3–5 purple disc flowers but no ray flowers.
Simple-stem everlasting
Gamochaeta antillana is an annual herb up to 40 cm tall, producing a taproot. Leaves are up to 4 cm long. The plant forms many small flower heads in elongated arrays and also in tightly packed clumps. Each head contains 3–5 purple disc flowers but no ray flowers.
Gamochaeta antillanum
Gamochaeta antillana is an annual herb up to 40 cm tall, producing a taproot. Leaves are up to 4 cm long. The plant forms many small flower heads in elongated arrays and also in tightly packed clumps. Each head contains 3–5 purple disc flowers but no ray flowers.
Purple cudweed
Purple cudweed (Gamochaeta purpurea), while native to North America, is a low-growing plant that has spread to many parts of the world, where it is often classed as an invasive weed. The plant's wind-borne seeds propagate and spread rapidly. Purple cudweed has small but attractive purple flowers.
Gray everlasting
Gray everlasting is a South American native known for its green, silky, teardrop-shaped leaves that grow in a rosette lying flat very close to the surface. Chewing this plant's leaf is similar to chewing non-sticky gum, hence the common name Poor man's chewing gum. Its cotton-like white strands are used to produce wool pillows or mattresses.
Featherweed
Gamochaeta ustulata is an annual or perennial herb up to 40 cm tall. Leaves are up to 5 cm long, green on the top but appearing white on the underside because of many woolly hairs. The plant forms many small flower heads in elongated arrays.
Scientific Classification
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