Gamochaeta pensylvanica

Pennsylvania everlasting

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Pennsylvania everlasting is a naturalized annual found in southern San Joaquin Valley, central and southern Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular Ranges in disturbed areas at elevations below 650 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces white flowers in dense clusters 10 to 15 millimeters wide when pressed. Growing with decumbent to erect stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall that are loosely cobwebby-tomentose, it forms a taproot. Its leaves range from spoon-shaped to oblanceolate-obovate, 2 to 7 centimeters long with wavy margins, becoming smaller up the stem and often abruptly pointed. The flower heads have phyllaries with inner series that are often proximally purple-tinged and distally transparent, with pistillate and disk flowers showing subtle purple-tipped corollas.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: < 650 m

Bioregions: SnJV, CCo, SCo, TR, PR

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