Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium (sweet everlasting)

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Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, photographed by Yann Kemper — fig. a Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / 2022-03-28 / obs. 185281193

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, photographed by mattmsa — fig. b mattmsa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168362474

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, photographed by Dax Ledesma — fig. c Dax Ledesma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163875937

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, photographed by Clifton Ladd, C.W.B. — fig. d Clifton Ladd, C.W.B., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165235536

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, photographed by Reid Hardin — fig. e Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163181605

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, photographed by Allen Browne — fig. f Allen Browne, CC0 1.0 / obs. 163589346

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, photographed by Mac Post — fig. g Mac Post, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162664139

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, photographed by aarongunnar — fig. h aarongunnar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162551145

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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.

Anaphalis margaritaceacalled this one 3x compare

Flowering n = 1,071 observations

162

599

247

Flowering observations of Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium by month
Month	Observations
Jan	4
Feb	1
Mar	0
Apr	3
May	2
Jun	3
Jul	10
Aug	162
Sep	599
Oct	247
Nov	36
Dec	4

Peak flowering in Sep, from 1,071 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 9 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.

Gnaphalium conoideum Lam.
Gnaphalium obtusifolium L.
Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. obtusifolium
Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. praecox Fernald
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium subsp. obtusifolium
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium subsp. praecox (Fernald) Kartesz
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium subsp. saxicola (Fassett) Kartesz
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium var. obtusifolium
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium var. saxicola (Fassett) Kartesz

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
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.