American cudweed, Antennaria margaritacea.

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1656.  Parkinson, Paradisi (ed. 2), 374. Argyrocome sive Gnaphalium Americanum. Live long or Life everlasting.

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1753.  in Chambers, Cycl., Suppl. App.

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1854.  Thoreau, Walden, iv. (1886), 111. Life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs.

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