Flora of North America species comparison

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Omalotheca supina

alpine arctic-cudweed, gnaphale couché
Habit Plants 2–8(–12) cm.
Leaves

mostly basal (in persistent rosettes);

blades 1-nerved, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 5–25 × 3 mm, cauline similar, faces concolor, gray-green, thinly woolly.
Involucres

campanulate, 5–6 mm.
Phyllaries

light green to tan, oblong to lanceolate, outer obtuse, inner mostly acute, margins and tips dark brown.
Heads

(usually 1–7) in subcapitate to loose, spiciform arrays.
Cypselae

obovoid, strigose;

pappus bristles distinct, falling separately.
2n

= 28.

Omalotheca supina
Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Granite outcrops, gravelly slopes, other alpine sites
Elevation 200–1300 m (700–4300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ME; NH; VT; NL; QC; Greenland; Europe; Asia (Caucasus, Iran)
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 439.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Omalotheca
Sibling taxa
O. norvegica, O. sylvatica
Synonyms Gnaphalium supinum
Name authority (Linnaeus) de Candolle: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 6: 245. (1838)
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