Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum |
Pseudognaphalium |
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weedy cudweed |
cudweed |
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Habit | Plants annual, 1.5–4 dm. | Herbs annual, biennial, or perennial; taprooted, often aromatic. |
Stems | floccose-tomentose, not glandular. |
1–several from base; erect to decumbent or prostrate; simple or branched; ± floccose-tomentose, glandular or not. |
Leaves | 1.5–5 cm, broadly or narrowly linear to oblanceolate, bases clasping, not decurrent; surfaces floccose-tomentose, not glandular. |
basal and cauline, or mostly cauline, alternate, linear to linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, oblong, or oblanceolate, gradually reduced distally, bases decurrent or not, sometimes clasping; margins entire, 1-veined; tips acute or obtuse; surfaces one or both tomentose, sometimes adaxially stalked-glandular, sessile. |
Inflorescences | glomerules in corymb- or panicle-like arrays; bracts present or not. |
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Involucres | 3–4 mm. |
ovoid or hemispheric. |
Receptacles | flat; smooth; paleae 0. |
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Phyllaries | in 3–4 series, green or brownish; surfaces glabrous. |
in 3–10 series; erect in flower, spreading in fruit, chartaceous; inner equal, linear to lanceolate or ovate; tips acute or obtuse; outer ± equal or gradually shorter; ovate to triangular; surfaces glabrous or tomentose. |
Fruits | 0.3–0.5 mm, brown; pappi white. |
cylindric or fusiform; surfaces smooth or minutely papillate, pappi of 10–12 equal, deciduous bristles. |
Heads | disciform. |
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Outer florets | 130–160; corolla tips red. |
pistillate; corollas red- or yellow-tipped. |
Inner florets | 5–10. |
bisexual; corollas tubular, linear, yellow to red, minutely 5-lobed. |
2n | =14, 16, 28. |
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Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum |
Pseudognaphalium |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Riverbanks, roadsides, disturbed areas. Flowering May–Aug. 0–300 m. CR, Est, Sisk, WV. CA, NV, WA; southeast to FL, south to Mexico; Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Pacific Islands. Exotic. |
Worldwide. ~100 species; 5 species treated in Flora. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 327 Kenton Chambers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 326 Kenton Chambers |
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