File talk:Sweet Everlasting in Bear Creek Lake State Park (5091071361).jpg

The plant depicted in the present image matches photos and a line drawing of Sweet Everlasting (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, synonyms: Gnaphalium obtusifolium, Gnaphalium polycephalum). As far as I can tell from the image, the Bear Creek plant also matches the description in Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown: Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions, 2nd edition, vol. III, New York 1913, p. 454 (illustrated). There, the range of the species is given as "Nova Scotia to Florida, Manitoba, Kansas and Texas. Jamaica." That is, Virginia lies within that east-coast distribution range.

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  Bear Creek Lake State Park, mid-October 2010
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  Wilson State Park, Kansas, early September 2016
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  Wilson State Park, Kansas, early September 2016
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  Wilson State Park, Kansas, early September 2016
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  Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, mid-September 2015
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  Bear Creek Lake State Park, mid-October 2010

The 2015 draft (available from UNC Chapel Hill Herbarium) of Alan S. Weakley's Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States (pp. 1166–1167) does not lead me to a different result. (However, that book includes so vast numbers of species that I might have overlooked something relevant.) -- Martinus KE (talk) 02:19, 19 December 2020 (UTC)