French botanist Étienne Pierre Ventenat described the golden everlasting as Xeranthemum bracteatum in his 1803 work Jardin de Malmaison , a book commissioned by Napoleon 's first wife Joséphine de Beauharnais to catalogue rare plants that she had collected and grown at the Château de Malmaison .
French botanist Étienne Pierre Ventenat described the golden everlasting as Xeranthemum bracteatum in his 1803 work Jardin de Malmaison .