Pseudognaphalium canescens |
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slender cudweed, Wright's cudweed, Wright's rabbit-tobacco |
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Habit | Annuals or perennials, 20–70(–100+) cm; taprooted. |
Stems | persistently tomentose, not glandular (2–3 mm diam. near bases). |
Leaf | blades narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, mostly 2–4(–5) cm × 2–8(–15) mm, bases not clasping, not decurrent, margins flat, faces weakly bicolor, tomentose (adaxial less densely tomentose, sometimes sessile-glandular beneath tomentum). |
Involucres | turbinate-campanulate, 4–5 mm. |
Pistillate florets | (16–)24–44. |
Bisexual florets | (1–)2–5(–6), 5–6 more common in northern part of range. |
Phyllaries | in 3–4 series, white (opaque to hyaline, dull to shiny), narrowly ovate-lanceolate, glabrous. |
Heads | usually in loose, corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, weakly papillate-roughened. |
2n | = 28. |
Pseudognaphalium canescens |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Nov(–Jan). |
Habitat | Lava beds, rocky sites, grasslands, oak, pine-oak, and pine woodlands |
Elevation | 1100–2500(–2700) m (3600–8200(–8900) ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NM; OK; TX; UT; Mexico
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Discussion | Most plants of Pseudognaphalium canescens produce white, opaque, keeled, apiculate phyllaries; in the southern portion of its range (Jalisco southeastward) and scattered localities elsewhere, the phyllaries may be more hyaline and lack a pronounced keel and apiculum. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 418. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium canescens, Gnaphalium sonorae, Gnaphalium texanum, Gnaphalium viridulum, Gnaphalium wrightii |
Name authority | (de Candolle) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) |
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