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Gamochaeta antillana
Also called Caribbean Purple Everlasting, Delicate Everlasting
Caribbean Everlasting is a small annual herb in the daisy family, grown mainly as a wild or naturalised plant rather than a garden ornamental. It thrives in sunny, open, well-drained spots and is typically left to self-seed.
Gamochaeta antillana, the delicate everlasting, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Greater Antilles and to the southeastern United States (from Florida to Louisiana). It has also become naturalized in other places (South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Texas, California, the Carolinas, etc.).
Gamochaeta antillana is an annual herb up to 40 cm (16 in) tall, producing a taproot. Leaves are up to 4 cm (1.6 in) 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 alpina · American everlasting · Antarctic cudweed · Silvery Cudweed · Narrowleaf Purple Everlasting · Gray everlasting · Pennsylvania Everlasting · Spoonleaf purple everlasting · Simple-stem everlasting · Owl's Crown · Sunflower · Desert Cudweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gamochaeta antillana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
