Scientific Name: Argentipallium dealbatum

Common Name: white everlasting

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Asteraceae

Form Description: Perennial herb with small tufts of leaves springing from perennial rhizomes.

Flowers: Terminal, 2.5cm in diameter. White with red- purple flush on outside bracts. Daisy eye white.

Fruit: Achene

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Plant Communities
Heath
Habitat Notes

Common in wet peaty soils.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Waterlogged

Soil Tolerance

Fertile, Loam, Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
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  • Seed Collecting Month
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  • Sowing Month
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  • Cutting Month
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Propagation Method
Seed

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Collect entire seed heads into paper bags and allow to dry. Do not collect in wet weather. Rub seed heads on fine wire screens or break up by hand to extract seed. Sieve to clean.

Seed Treatment Method

Surface Sow Sow seed finely on the surface of the potting mix and cover with just enough mix to hold the seed on the surface when watered.

Seed Storage Life

Short

Seed Treatment Notes

Needs light to germinate.