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Pseudognaphalium californicum

California cudweed, California everlasting, California rabbit-tobacco, ladies' tobacco
Habit Annuals, biennials, or perennials, 20–40 cm; taprooted.
Stems

stipitate-glandular, sometimes lightly villous as well.
Leaf

blades mostly narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 4–10 cm × 5–10(–20) mm (relatively even-sized distally), bases auriculate-clasping to subclasping or not, decurrent (2–10 mm) or not, margins flat or slightly revolute, faces concolor, mostly green, stipitate-glandular, viscid, sometimes lightly villous as well.
Involucres

campanulo-globose, 5.5–7 mm.
Pistillate florets

105–140.
Bisexual florets

7–12.
Phyllaries

in 7–10 series, white (opaque, shiny or dull), broadly ovate to oblong-obovate, glabrous.
Heads

in corymbiform arrays.
Cypselae

ridged, smooth.
2n

= 28.

Pseudognaphalium californicum
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Sandy canyons, dry hills, coastal chaparral
Elevation 60–800 m (200–2600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Leaf insertion in Pseudognaphalium californicum is unusually variable: bases may be clasping to subclasping without decurrent margins or decurrent and not show any clasping tendency.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 423.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium
Sibling taxa
P. arizonicum, P. austrotexanum, P. beneolens, P. biolettii, P. canescens, P. helleri, P. jaliscense, P. leucocephalum, P. luteoalbum, P. macounii, P. micradenium, P. microcephalum, P. obtusifolium, P. pringlei, P. ramosissimum, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. thermale, P. viscosum
Synonyms Gnaphalium californicum, Gnaphalium decurrens var. californicum
Name authority (de Candolle) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991)
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