Flora of North America species comparison

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Omalotheca norvegica

gnaphale de norvège, Norwegian arctic-cudweed
Habit Plants 10–40 cm.
Leaves

basal and cauline, basal petiolate, blades 3-nerved, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–12 cm × 6–30 mm, distal cauline slightly smaller, oblanceolate, faces concolor or weakly bicolor, grayish, thinly woolly.
Involucres

cylindro-campanulate, 5.5–6 mm.
Phyllaries

brown to reddish brown with narrow pale center and base.
Heads

(10–60+) in compact, spiciform (leafy-bracteate, sometimes interrupted) arrays (1.5–14 cm, occupying 1/8–1/4 of plant heights, primary axes usually not visible).
Cypselae

cylindric, minutely strigose;

pappus bristles basally connate, falling together.
2n

= 56.

Omalotheca norvegica
Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Wet or peaty slopes, alpine and subalpine meadows, cliff ledges, rocky slopes
Elevation 400–1300 m (1300–4300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NL; QC; Greenland; Europe
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 439.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Omalotheca
Sibling taxa
O. supina, O. sylvatica
Synonyms Gnaphalium norvegicum
Name authority (Gunnerus) Schultz-Bipontinus & F. W. Schultz: in F. W. Schultz, Arch. Fl., 311. (1861)
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