| Author | Nesom | |
| Distribution | Coastal Plain and Piedmont, and at least in the southern half of the Mountains. The many gaps in the range are probably due to lack of collecting interest, or lack of understanding of its field marks, by most biologists.
DE to KY and KS, south to northern FL and TX. | |
| Abundance | Frequent to common, to locally abundant, though rare to uncommon in the southern and central Mountains. Though listed by NatureServe as a good species, it still has not been Globally Ranked, though it clearly is a G5. | |
| Habitat | Roadsides, yards, fields, fallow cropfields, other disturbed ground. |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting late March-July. | |
| Identification | Silvery Everlasting is one of several species split off from G. purpurea. In this case, the basal leaves are strongly bicolored: green above and silvery white beneath. (Most other species in the genus have basal leaves nearly concolored on both sides.) Spoonleaf Purple Everlasting (G. purpurea) differs in its narrower leaves that are spatulate (vs. oblanceolate or obovate) and taller involucres (4-4.5 mm long vs. 3-3.5 mm long). | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Formerly treated as Gnaphalium purpureum without any status.
| |
| Other Common Name(s) | Silvery Cudweed | |
| State Rank | [S5] | |
| Global Rank | GNR [G5] | |
| State Status | | |
| US Status | | |
| USACE-agcp | | |
| USACE-emp | | |
