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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Gamochaeta coarctata
|accepted_authority=(Willdenow) Kerguélen
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Lejeunia
|place=120: 104. 1987
|year=1987
}}
|common_names=Elegant cudweed
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Gnaphalium coarctatum
|authority=Willdenow
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=3: 1886. 1803,
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gamochaeta spicata
|authority=Cabrera
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae;Gamochaeta;Gamochaeta coarctata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gamochaeta]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gamochaeta coarctata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 432, 436
|treatment_page=page 435
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Winter </b>annuals or biennials, 15–35(–50) cm; fibrous-rooted. <b>Stems</b> decumbent-ascending, white-pannose (tomentum usually sheath-like). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, basal present (in rosettes) at flowering, blades spatulate to oblanceolate-obovate, (1.5–)3–8(–12) cm × 6–15(–22) mm (gradually or little smaller distally, slightly succulent, margins often crenulate on drying), faces bicolor, abaxial closely white-pannose, adaxial glabrous or glabrate. <b>Heads</b> initially usually in dense, continuous spiciform arrays 2–20 cm × 10–14 mm (pressed), later branched, interrupted. <b>Involucres</b> cylindro-campanulate, 2.5–3 mm, bases glabrous. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–5 series, outer (purplish or rosy) elliptic-obovate to broadly ovate-elliptic, lengths 1/3–1/4 inner, apices rounded to obtuse, inner oblong, laminae brown-hyaline, apices rounded to obtuse or blunt, apiculate. <b>Florets</b>: bisexual 2–3; all corollas usually purplish distally. <b>Cypselae</b> (tan) 0.5–0.6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 28, 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Ditches, low roadsides, sidewalk cracks, shaded spots around buildings, other shaded, moist habitats
|elevation=0–150 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;South America;also introduced in Mexico;West Indies;Europe;Asia;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Gamochaeta coarctata</i> is native to South America and is also introduced in Mexico. R. K. Godfrey (1958) identified specimens of <i>G. coarctata</i> as <i>Gnaphalium</i> spicatum Lamarck. Some specimens from the flora area were misidentified by G. L. Nesom (1990f) as <i>Gamochaeta</i> americana (Miller) Weddell, which was described from Jamaica; it is widespread in Central America and Mexico, and has not been observed in the flora area.</p>
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name=Gamochaeta coarctata
|author=
|authority=(Willdenow) Kerguélen
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Gamochaeta spicata
|basionyms=Gnaphalium coarctatum
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Ditches, low roadsides, sidewalk cracks, shaded spots around buildings, other shaded, moist habitats
|elevation=0–150 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;South America;also introduced in Mexico;West Indies;Europe;Asia;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Lejeunia
|publication year=1987
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae
|genus=Gamochaeta
|species=Gamochaeta coarctata
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