Purple Cudweed, Spoon-leaved Purple Everlasting
Gnaphalium purpureum
Synonyms: Gamochaeta purpurea, Gamochaeta ustulata

Purple cudweed blooming on Bayocean Spit at the west side of Tillamook Bay...............June 13, 2010.

Purple cudweed as seen at the base of a basalt cliff along US Highway 101 at Neahkanie Mt. on the Oregon coast................May 22, 2009.

A mass of basal leaf rosettes of purple cudeweed as seen above the high tide line on the beach at Bay Ocean Spit, Tillamook County, Oregon..........February 17, 2015.
Paul Slichter