cudweed

any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color

• chafeweed, wood cudweed, Gnaphalium sylvaticum — weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike

• everlasting, everlasting flower — any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color

• Gnaphalium, genus Gnaphalium — large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres