Definition of "life-everlasting" [life-everlasting]

• Cudweed or everlasting; the species of the genus Gnaphalium. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub oaks and sand cherry, blueberry and groundnut."
• "A bird sits on the next bough, life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs; pine cones, chestnut burs, and strawberry leaves are strewn about."
• "When we got sick we would take butterfly root and life-everlasting and boil it and made a syrup and take it for colds."