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{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen
| name = ''Xeranthemum''
| image = Xeranthemum annuum.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''[[Xeranthemum annuum]]''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asterales]]
| familia = [[Asteraceae]]
| genus = '''''Xeranthemum'''''

}}
'''Xeranthemum''' is a [[flower]] of the genus ''Xeranthemum'' native to [[Southern Europe]]. It has silvery [[flower]] heads with purplish tubular flowers.

It is a symbol of eternity and immortality.

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 Many-branched plants. Up to 2 inch long silvery leaves are be oblong to lanceolate. The papery flowers are dry, shiny and can be either single or double. Flowers reach as much as 2 in. wides and come in white, rose, or pink. Make good drying flowers. Cut flowers when buds are starting to open, or they turn a light brown.
 ==Cultivation==
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 Can be grown in well-drained soil that is anywhere from moist to a bit dry.  Plants are drought tolerant, and should get sun at least half of the day.
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	The culture of xeranthemum is very simple. Seeds are usually sown in the open, where the plants are to stand; but they may be started outdoors and the seedlings transplanted. Hardy or half-hardy annuals.		The culture of xeranthemum is very simple. Seeds are usually sown in the open, where the plants are to stand; but they may be started outdoors and the seedlings transplanted. Hardy or half-hardy annuals.
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		+	X. inapterum, Mill. (X. erectum, Presl), has white heads, of which the scales are little or not at all open or spreading. S. Eu. to S. W. Asia.
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		+	Xeranthemum (Greek, dry flower: it is one of the "everlastings"). Compositae. Annual erect herbs, densely pubescent or tomentose, of which X. annuum is one of the oldest and best known of the "everlastings" or immortelles.
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		+	Heads rayless, but the large involucral scales are petal-like and persistent, giving the plant its value as a subject for dry bouquets: outer fls. few and sterile, inner ones fertile; receptacle chaffy; involucral scales in many series, of various lengths, glabrous; heads solitary on long naked peduncles.—Four or 5 species, Medit. region.
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		+	The culture of xeranthemum is very simple. Seeds are usually sown in the open, where the plants are to stand; but they may be started outdoors and the seedlings transplanted. Hardy or half-hardy annuals.
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+__NOTOC__{{Plantbox
 | name = ''Xeranthemum''
 | image = Xeranthemum annuum.jpg
 | image_width = 240px
 | image_caption = ''[[Xeranthemum annuum]]''
-| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
+| regnum = Plantae
-| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
+| divisio = Magnoliophyta
-| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
+| classis = Magnoliopsida
-| ordo = [[Asterales]]
+| ordo = Asterales
-| familia = [[Asteraceae]]
+| familia = Asteraceae
-| genus = '''''Xeranthemum'''''
+| genus = Xeranthemum
 }}
-'''Xeranthemum''' is a [[flower]] of the genus ''Xeranthemum'' native to [[Southern Europe]]. It has silvery [[flower]] heads with purplish tubular flowers.
+Many-branched plants. Up to 2 inch long silvery leaves are be oblong to lanceolate. The papery flowers are dry, shiny and can be either single or double. Flowers reach as much as 2 in. wides and come in white, rose, or pink. Make good drying flowers. Cut flowers when buds are starting to open, or they turn a light brown.
-It is a symbol of eternity and immortality.
+==Cultivation==