Pseudognaphalium californicum |
Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum |
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California cudweed, California everlasting, California rabbit-tobacco, ladies' tobacco |
pink cudweed, pink everlasting, pink rabbit-tobacco |
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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 |
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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 |
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 423. | FNA vol. 19, p. 425. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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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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