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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Cudweeds, Everlastings, and Pussytoes
  8. Everlastings and Cudweeds
  9. Top native

Top native everlastings and cudweeds

8 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

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8 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 1

Soil and water

Moisture

Dry 1 Moist 1

Soil

Sand 1 Loam 1 Clay 1

Toughness

Resists

Dry soil 1

Form

Habit

Erect 1

Plant type

Annual 5 Wildflower 5 Perennial 2 Weed 1
  • Purple Cudweed Gamochaeta purpurea caterpillars 4
  • Silvery Everlasting Gamochaeta argyrinea caterpillars 1 flowers 1
  • Featherweed Gamochaeta ustulata caterpillars 1
  • American Everlasting Gamochaeta americana caterpillars 1
  • Narrowleaf Purple Everlasting Gamochaeta calviceps caterpillars 1
  • Caribbean Purple Everlasting Gamochaeta antillana caterpillars 1
  • White-cloaked Cudweed Gamochaeta chionesthes caterpillars 1
  • Narrowleaf Everlasting Gamochaeta falcata caterpillars 1

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