Diaperia verna

Diaperia verna, common names spring pygmycudweed, spring rabbit-tobacco or many-stem rabbit-tobacco, is a plant species in the sunflower family, native to northern Mexico (from Sonora to Tamaulipas) and the southern United States (from Arizona to Louisiana, with isolated populations (possibly introductions) in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina).

Diaperia verna is an herb with greenish or grayish leaves due to a coating of woolly hairs. One plant usually produces several flower heads, the corollas hidden by surrounding bracts.


 * Varieties
 * Diaperia verna var. drummondii (Torr. & A.Gray) Morefield - coastal Alabama + Texas
 * Diaperia verna var. verna - Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Sonora, Tamaulipas).