Gamochaeta purpurea

Purple Cudweed at Mount Majura

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Identification history

Gamochaeta purpurea	12 Jun 2024	RWPurdie
Gamochaeta americana	15 Dec 2020	MichaelMulvaney
Gamochaeta americana	12 Dec 2020	abread111
Gamochaeta americana	12 Dec 2020	MichaelBedingfield
Gamochaeta sp.	11 Dec 2020	abread111

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quite common - several patches along the powerline track

4 comments

abread111 wrote:

12 Dec 2020

michael
I know Jersey cudweed and this is not it. This plant is much shorter and lacks the terminal clusters of flowers that the Jersey cudweed has. Michael Mulveney identified a single more mature plant I found recently at the Fair end of Majura as Gamochaeta and I thought these were the same ...

waltraud wrote:

12 Dec 2020

Barb, I think you are right;
I'm afraid my recording at Gamochaeta calviceps (Narrowleaf Purple Everlasting)
isn't a Jersey Cudweed either; the Jersey cudweed page shows the terminal clusters of flowers that you mentioned in your comment. I think it is one of the introduced Gamochaeta sp. (which I proposed as well). Perhaps best to collect a sample for id?
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MichaelBedingfield wrote:

12 Dec 2020

See:-
Gamochaeta sp. (Cudweed)

abread111 wrote:

12 Dec 2020

looks like it probably is G. americana - I'll collect a sample as Waltraud suggests, so someone can look at how hairy the leaves are etc

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