Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 495 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae pascuis; in argillosis argentea."

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: - [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (13 May 1856), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(2): 113 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 429 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 78 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 63 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 47 [secondary reference]

Rydberg, P.A. (1898), Memoirs from the Department of Botany of Columbia College 2: 159 [basionym]

basionym of: Argentina anserina (L.) Rydb. legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 44 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 125 [secondary reference]

common name: Silver weed [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 265 [secondary reference]

common name: Silver-weed [n/a]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 397 [secondary reference]

common name: Silver-weed [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 170 [secondary reference]

common name: Silverweed [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 173 [secondary reference]

common name: Silverweed [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 187 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. & Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Rosaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 561, Fig. 115h [secondary reference]

common name: Silverweed [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: Subspecific rank not recognised in SA, Vic or Tas.
• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Bean, A.R. (21 April 2015), Notes on Potentilla (Rosaceae) and related genera in Australia. Muelleria 33: 80 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Argentina anserina (L.) Rydb. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 71 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Argentina anserina (L.) Rydb. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Argentina anserina (L.) Rydb. legitimate

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