(n)mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere, Syn.Xeranthemum annuum
(n)wild aster having greyish leafy stems and flower heads with narrow pale lavender or violet rays; of rocky desert slopes California to Arizona and Utah, Syn.Machaeranthera tortifoloia
(n)wild aster having leafy stems and flower heads with narrow bright reddish-lavender or purple rays; western Colorado to Arizona, Syn.Machaeranthera bigelovii