Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 854 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Carolina, Virginia, Pensylvania."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 655 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 79 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 191 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 266 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 92, 239 [secondary reference]

Cabrera, A.L. (1961), Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 9: 377 [basionym]

basionym of: Gamochaeta purpurea (L.) Cabrera legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 383 [secondary reference]

common name: Purplish Cudweed [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 321 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. in Eichler, Hj. (1965), Gnaphalium. Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 314 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 389 [secondary reference]

common name: Purplish Cudweed [n/a]

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 702-703 [secondary reference]

common name: Purple Cudweed [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 78 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. (1987), A note on Gnaphalium L. in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 52: 8-9 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Gnaphalium pensylvanicum Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gnaphalium calviceps Fernald legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 375 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gamochaeta purpurea (L.) Cabrera legitimate

Department of the Conservation and Land Management (1999), Environmental weed strategy for Western Australia: 109 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Gamochaeta. Flora of Victoria 4: 817 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gamochaeta purpurea (L.) Cabrera legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gamochaeta purpurea (L.) Cabrera legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Gamochaeta pensylvanica (Willd.) Cabrera legitimate by Department of the Conservation and Land Management (1999), Environmental weed strategy for Western Australia: 109

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 15 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gamochaeta purpurea (L.) Cabrera legitimate

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