Anaphalis margaritacea(L.) Benth. & Hook.f.

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WFO wfo-0000092746 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Anaphalis margaritacea, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. a Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / 2022-01-22 / obs. 176828174
Anaphalis margaritacea, photographed by Allan Harris
fig. b Allan Harris, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204467622
Anaphalis margaritacea, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. c Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167608157
Anaphalis margaritacea, photographed by Jamie VanBuskirk
fig. d Jamie VanBuskirk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165861567
Anaphalis margaritacea, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. e Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172408641
Anaphalis margaritacea, photographed by Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng.
fig. f Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164293665
Anaphalis margaritacea, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. g Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165183635
Anaphalis margaritacea, photographed by sprcrkwild
fig. h sprcrkwild, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163724007

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 9,616 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 9,616 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 44 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anaphalis angustifolia Rydb.
  • Anaphalis cinnamomea var. angustior (Miq.) Nakai
  • Anaphalis cinnamomea var. cinnamomea
  • Anaphalis cinnomomea C.B.Clarke
  • Anaphalis japonica Maxim.
  • Anaphalis lanata (A.Nelson) Rydb.
  • Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. ex C.B.Clarke
  • Anaphalis margaritacea f. margaritacea
  • Anaphalis margaritacea subsp. angustior (Miq.) Kitam. & H.Hara
  • Anaphalis margaritacea var. angustior (Miq.) Nakai
  • Anaphalis margaritacea var. intercedens H.Hara
  • Anaphalis margaritacea var. occidentalis Greene
  • Anaphalis margaritacea var. subalpina (A.Gray) A.Gray
  • Anaphalis margaritacea var. tsoongiana Ling
  • Anaphalis margaritaceae subsp. yedoensis (Franch. & Sav.) Kitam.
  • Anaphalis occidentalis A.Heller
  • Anaphalis sierrae A.Heller
  • Anaphalis subalpina (A.Gray) Rydb.
  • Anaphalis timmua (D.Don) Hand.-Mazz.
  • Anaphalis timmua D.Don
  • Anaphalis yedoensis (Franch. & Sav.) Maxim.
  • Antennaria cinnamomea DC.
  • Antennaria cinnamomea var. angustior Miq.
  • Antennaria cinnamomea var. cinnamomea

and 20 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.