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| name = ''Xeranthemum''
|familia=Asteraceae
| image = Xeranthemum annuum.jpg
|genus=Xeranthemum
| image_width = 240px
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| image_caption = ''[[Xeranthemum annuum]]''
|Min ht metric=ft
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
|Max ht box=2
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
|Max ht metric=ft
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
|origin=S Europe
| ordo = [[Asterales]]
|lifespan=annual
| familia = [[Asteraceae]]
|Temp Metric=°F
| genus = '''''Xeranthemum'''''
|image=Xeranthemum annuum.jpg
|image_width=240
| subdivision = ?? -->
|image_caption=Xeranthemum annuum
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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.
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.
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.
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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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.
===Propagation===
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From seed.
===Pests and diseases===
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==Species==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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