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slender cudweed, northwestern rabbit-tobacco

Habit Herbaceous perennials, the stems 30-70 cm. tall, loosely white-woolly, not glandular.
Leaves

Leaves alternate, oblanceolate to linear, 3-8 cm. long and 3-6 mm. wide, with a wing down the stem below each leaf 4-15 mm. long, the blades loosely white-woolly and with sessile glands.

Flowers

Heads in loose to dense, flat-topped inflorescences;

involucres broadly top-shaped, 5-6 mm. long;

involucral bracts in 3-4 series, usually shiny and whitish, glabrous, ovate to oblong;

corollas all tubular, the outer pistillate, 35-55, the inner perfect, 4-7;

pappus of capillary bristles.

Fruits

Achenes rigid, roughened.

Pseudognaphalium thermale

Pseudognaphalium jaliscense

Flowering time June-September
Habitat Dry, sandy banks and ditches, open woods of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir, and mixed deciduous forests.
Distribution
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Montana and Utah.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
P. californicum, P. luteoalbum, P. macounii, P. stramineum
P. californicum, P. luteoalbum, P. macounii, P. stramineum, P. thermale
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