Gamochaeta antillana, the delicate everlasting, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Greater Antilles and to the southeastern United States (from Florida to Louisiana). It has also become naturalized in other places (South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Texas, California, the Carolinas, etc.).Guy L. Nesom 2004. New distribution records for Gamochaeta (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) in the United States. Sida 21(2): 1175–1185.Zuloaga, F. O., O. Morrone, M. J. Belgrano, C. Marticorena & E. Marchesi. (eds.) 2008. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107(1–3): i–xcvi, 1–3348. Gamochaeta antillana is an annual herb up to 40 cm tall, producing a taproot. Leaves are up to 4 cm long. The plant forms many small flower heads in elongated arrays and also in tightly packed clumps. Each head contains 3–5 purple disc flowers but no ray flowers.Flora of North America, Gamochaeta antillana (Urban) Anderberg, 1991. Delicate everlasting Gamochaeta antillana is similar to G. falcata, and many Gamochaeta antillana specimens from the eastern United States have long been misidentified as G. falcata.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
⚠ sources differ — AusTraits: 0.45 mm · GIFT: 1 mm
Leaf length max40 mm
Leaf length min20 mm
Leaf width6 mm
Leaf width max6 mm
Leaf width min6 mm
Plant height0.24 m
Plant height max0.4 m
Plant height min0.06 m
Life cycle & reproduction7
Deciduousnessdeciduous
Dehiscenceindehiscent
Dispersal typewind
Life formannual or perennial
Life spanannual
Raunkiær life formtherophyte
Reproduction asexualabsent
Diet & foraging1
Parasiteindependent
Habitat & environment10
Aquaticterrestrial
Climatesubtropical
Climberself-supporting
Elevation max4 000 m
Elevation min0 m
Epiphyteterrestrial
Fruit typeachene
Growth formherb
Habitat GIFTÁrea Antrópica, Campo de Altitude
Woodinessnon-woody
Physiology & chemistry1
Nitrogen fixingnon_nitrogen_fixer
Other traits1
Plant support typefree-standing
05DNA & barcoding10 sequences
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Gamochaeta antillana has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
Marker genes3
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections2
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★matK2★rbcL2★ITS6
plant barcodefungal barcode
07Deep time~0.56 Ma lineage
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin0.56 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 518 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 168
Museum / vouchered350
Origin
Native4
Introduced80
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO3 752 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy14% within 1 km
≤100 m 116≤1 km 19≤10 km 788>10 km 12
935 georeferenced · 233 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 168
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy77% within 1 km
≤100 m 25≤1 km 21≤10 km 14
60 georeferenced · 290 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence350
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions33 of 52 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Tampa, US
60
Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record
36
Mount Annan, AU
31
Austin, US
28
Valdosta State Universitylocation not on record
22
Fort Worth, US
15
Columbia, US
15
Tall Timbers Research Stationlocation not on record
13
Canberra, AU
12
US
10
GAlocation not on record
9
Bronx, US
9
Jackson, US
9
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
9
Armidale, AU
6
Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record
4
Western Carolina Universitylocation not on record
4
Riverside, US
3
Tuscaloosa, US
3
Wuzhou, CN
3
Little Rock, US
3
Chapel Hill, US
3
Auckland, NZ
3
Claremont, US
3
Bangkok, TH
2
Rotorua, NZ
2
AUAlocation not on record
2
MeiseBGlocation not on record
2
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record
2
Salvador, BR
2
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
2
Clemson, US
2
Bloomington, US
2
Taipei, TW
1
ASUlocation not on record
1
Cincinnati, US
1
Adelaide, AU
1
University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record
1
McWane Science Centerlocation not on record
1
Fairfax, US
1
Santa Barbara, US
1
Wlocation not on record
1
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
1
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
1
Durban, ZA
1
CASlocation not on record
1
UFBAlocation not on record
1
Paris, FR
1
Dekalb, US
1
EL PASO, US
1
Chadron, US
1
Saint Louis, US
1
52 institutions · 350 of 350 vouchered records shown
09Environmental DNA2 detections
Where the DNA of Gamochaeta antillana was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found2
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 2 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median15.2 °C 15.2–15.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter21.1 °C
Max temp (day)20.1 °C
Min temp (night)9.00 °C
Precipitation33.4 mm/mo
Air humidity52.9 %
Moisture balance-61.7 mm/mo
Vapour deficit953 Pa
Wind speed2.00 m/s
Cloud cover38.3 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 518 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗