Caribbean purple everlasting

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.).

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Caribbean purple everlasting being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Gamochaeta calviceps
• Gamochaeta purpurea
• Gamochaeta argyrinea
• Gnaphalium polycaulon
• Gamochaeta pensylvanica

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Asteraceae

Genus

Gamochaeta

Species

Gamochaeta antillana

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