Argentina anserina(L.) Rydb.

common silverweed

WFO wfo-0001009478 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Argentina anserina, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. a Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204586533
Argentina anserina, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. b Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205791509
Argentina anserina, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. c Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205894326
Argentina anserina, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. d Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204636541
Argentina anserina, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. e Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205477596
Argentina anserina, photographed by Anne Thomson
fig. f Anne Thomson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204696845
Argentina anserina, photographed by alcesevropsky
fig. g alcesevropsky, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204424912
Argentina anserina, photographed by Anne Thomson
fig. h Anne Thomson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204693847

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Flowering n = 2,717 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 2,717 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 84 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Argentina anserina subsp. egedii (Wormsk. ex Oeder) Á.Löve & Ritchie
  • Argentina anserina var. concolor (Wallr.) Rydb.
  • Argentina anserina var. sericea (Hayne) Piper
  • Argentina argentea Rydb.
  • Argentina babcockiana Rydb.
  • Argentina egedii (Wormsk. ex Oeder) Rydb.
  • Argentina litoralis Rydb.
  • Argentina vulgaris Hill
  • Argentina vulgaris Lam.
  • Dactylophyllum anserina (L.) Spenn.
  • Dasiphora anserina (L.) Raf.
  • Fragaria anserina (L.) Crantz
  • Potentilla anserina L.
  • Potentilla anserina f. appressa Domin
  • Potentilla anserina f. aurantiaca (Zimmeter) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla anserina f. delitschiana Kuntze
  • Potentilla anserina f. furcata Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla anserina f. geminiflora (Nestl.) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla anserina f. incisa Th.Wolf ex Domin
  • Potentilla anserina f. longissima (Schur) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla anserina f. sericea (Hayne) Fernald
  • Potentilla anserina f. tenella (Lange) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla anserina f. tuberosa Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla anserina prol. argentina (Huds.) Th.Wolf

and 60 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.