Gamochaeta purpurea
# Gamochaeta purpurea

Gamochaeta purpurea, the purple cudweed, purple everlasting, or spoonleaf purple everlasting, is a plant native to North America.

## Description

It is a small annual herb that produces lanceolate, alternate, wooly leaves and peg-shaped flowerheads in terminal clusters. The seeds are windborne.

## Habitat

It can grow on most any type of soil that is moderately moist, but prefers meadows, rocky terrain, and farmland.

## Conservation status in the United States

It is listed as endangered in Massachusetts and New York, as possibly extirpated in Maine, as historical in Rhode Island, and as a special concern species in Connecticut, where it is believed extirpated.

## Ethnobotany

The Houma people take a decoction of the dried plant for colds and influenza.

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