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

Common names:

• pearly everlasting   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• anaphale marguerite   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• immortelle blanche   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• immortelle d'argent   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• großblütiges Perlkörbchen   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Silberimmortelle   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• pärleternell   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kurile Islands, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India - Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal; Pakistan [n.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  Southeastern Europe: Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North America

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Chen, F.-H. et al. 1966. De genere Anaphalis DC. familiae Compositarume florae sinicae. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 11:94.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hu, S.-Y. 1970. Compositae of China. 109.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• The sunflower family (Asteraceae) of British Columbia.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Anaphalis margaritacea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Anaphalis margaritacea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Anaphalis margaritacea.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Gnaphalium margaritaceum L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. & Hook. f.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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