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California cudweed, California everlasting, California rabbit-tobacco, ladies' tobacco

pink cudweed, pink everlasting, pink rabbit-tobacco

Habit Annuals, biennials, or perennials, 20–40 cm; taprooted. Biennials (sweetly fragrant), 50–120(–150) cm; taprooted.
Stems

stipitate-glandular, sometimes lightly villous as well.

(erect) gray-tomentose, glabrescent, stipitate-glandular beneath tomentum.

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.

blades linear to lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly spatulate, (1–)3–7 cm × 3–5(–7) mm, bases not clasping, decurrent 2–10 mm, margins revolute and closely undulate, faces concolor, greenish, loosely tomentose, stipitate-glandular.

Involucres

campanulo-globose, 5.5–7 mm.

turbinate to short-cylindric, 5–6 mm.

Pistillate florets

105–140.

38–62.

Bisexual florets

7–12.

2–7.

Phyllaries

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

in 4–5 series, usually pinkish, sometimes white or greenish (hyaline, dull), ovate to ovate-oblong, loosely tomentose (bases).

Heads

in corymbiform arrays.

usually in paniculiform (broadly columnar or at least as long as broad, sometimes pyramidal) arrays.

Cypselae

ridged, smooth.

ridged, smooth.

2n

= 28.

= 28.

Pseudognaphalium californicum

Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul. Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Sandy canyons, dry hills, coastal chaparral Dry, open slopes, sparsely wooded, sandy fields, dunes
Elevation 60–800 m (200–2600 ft) 20–600 m (100–2000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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from FNA
CA
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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. FNA vol. 19, p. 425.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium 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
P. arizonicum, P. austrotexanum, P. beneolens, P. biolettii, P. californicum, P. canescens, P. helleri, P. jaliscense, P. leucocephalum, P. luteoalbum, P. macounii, P. micradenium, P. microcephalum, P. obtusifolium, P. pringlei, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. thermale, P. viscosum
Synonyms Gnaphalium californicum, Gnaphalium decurrens var. californicum Gnaphalium ramosissimum
Name authority (de Candolle) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991)
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