Delicate everlasting facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Delicate everlasting |
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Gnaphalieae
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Gamochaeta
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G. antillana
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| Gamochaeta antillana (Urb.) Anderb. 1991
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Gamochaeta antillana, also known as the Delicate everlasting, is a type of flowering plant. It belongs to the sunflower family, which includes many well-known plants like daisies and sunflowers.
This plant is originally from the Greater Antilles and the southeastern part of the United States. This includes states like Florida and Louisiana. Over time, it has also started growing in other places around the world. You can now find it in parts of South America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. It also grows in other U.S. states like Texas, California, and the Carolinas.
What Does It Look Like?
The Delicate everlasting is an annual herb. This means it completes its whole life cycle, from seed to flower to seed, within one year. It can grow up to about 40 centimeters (16 inches) tall.
Plant Parts
- Roots: It has a main root called a taproot, which grows straight down.
- Leaves: Its leaves are fairly small, growing up to 4 centimeters (about 1.5 inches) long.
- Flowers: The plant produces many small flower heads. These heads can be found in long, thin groups or in tight bunches. Each flower head has a few tiny purple disc flowers, usually 3 to 5 of them. Unlike some other flowers in the sunflower family, it does not have ray flowers, which are the petal-like parts you see on a daisy.
Similar Plants
Gamochaeta antillana looks a lot like another plant called Gamochaeta falcata. Because they are so similar, people have often mixed them up. Many plants found in the eastern United States that were thought to be G. falcata were actually Gamochaeta antillana.
