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sticky cudweed, winged cudweed

northwestern rabbit-tobacco, Wright's cudweed

Habit Plants annual or biennial, 4–10 dm. Plants perennial, 2–9 dm.
Stems

pilose- or floccose-pubescent, stalked-glandular.

floccose-tomentose, not glandular.

Leaves

2–10 cm, linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate, bases decurrent;

surfaces contrasting in color, abaxially gray-tomentose, sometimes stalked-glandular on midveins, adaxially green, glabrous or scarcely tomentose, usually stalked-glandular.

1.5–9 cm, linear to oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, bases decurrent on stem, not clasping;

surfaces floccose-tomentose, sometimes minutely glandular beneath longer trichomes.

Involucres

4.5–6 mm.

4–6 mm.

Phyllaries

in 4–5 series, white or brownish;

surfaces glabrous.

in 3–4 series, white;

surfaces glabrous.

Fruits

0.4–0.5 mm, brown;

pappi white.

0.5–0.6 mm, brown;

pappi white.

Outer florets

50–100;

corolla tips yellow.

35–55;

corolla tips yellow.

Inner florets

5–12.

4–7.

Pseudognaphalium macounii

Pseudognaphalium thermale

Distribution
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Discussion

Open woodlands, grasslands, riverbanks, roadsides. Flowering Jul–Sep. 1000–2000 m. BW, Casc. CA, ID, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Nova Scotia, east to MA, southeast to NM, south to Mexico. Native.

Conifer forests, shrublands, grasslands, riverbanks, lakesides, dry slopes, roadsides, disturbed areas. Flowering Jun–Oct. 0–2000 m. BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Sisk. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Alberta, east to WY, southeast to UT. Native.

Pseudognaphalium thermale is here recognized at the species rank rather than its earlier placement as a subspecies of P. canescens or a variety of P. microcephalum.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 327
Kenton Chambers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 327
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
P. californicum, P. luteoalbum, P. stramineum, P. thermale
P. californicum, P. luteoalbum, P. macounii, P. stramineum
Synonyms Gnaphalium macounii, Gnaphalium viscosum, Pseudognaphalium viscosum Gnaphalium canescens ssp. thermale, Gnaphalium microcephalum, Gnaphalium microcephalum var. thermale, Gnaphalium thermale
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