Pseudognaphalium canescens |
Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum |
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slender cudweed, Wright's cudweed, Wright's rabbit-tobacco |
Jersey cudweed, Jersey rabbit tobacco, red-tip rabbit-tobacco, weedy cudweed |
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Habit | Annuals or perennials, 20–70(–100+) cm; taprooted. | Annuals, 15–40 cm; taprooted or fibrous-rooted. |
Stems | persistently tomentose, not glandular (2–3 mm diam. near bases). |
loosely white-tomentose, not glandular. |
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). |
blades (crowded, internodes 1–5, sometimes to 10 mm) narrowly obovate to subspatulate, 1–3(–6) cm × 2–8 mm (distal smaller, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong or linear), bases subclasping, usually decurrent 1–2 mm, margins weakly revolute, faces mostly concolor to weakly bicolor, abaxial gray-tomentose, adaxial usually gray-tomentose, sometimes glabrescent, neither glandular. |
Involucres | turbinate-campanulate, 4–5 mm. |
broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm. |
Pistillate florets | (16–)24–44. |
135–160. |
Bisexual florets | (1–)2–5(–6), 5–6 more common in northern part of range. |
5–10 (corollas red-tipped). |
Phyllaries | in 3–4 series, white (opaque to hyaline, dull to shiny), narrowly ovate-lanceolate, glabrous. |
in 3–4 series, silvery gray to yellowish (hyaline), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous. |
Heads | usually in loose, corymbiform arrays. |
in terminal glomerules (1–2 cm diam.). |
Cypselae | ridged, weakly papillate-roughened. |
not evidently ridged (conspicuously dotted with whitish, papilliform hairs; pappus bristles loosely coherent basally, released in clusters or easily fragmented rings). |
2n | = 28. |
= 14, 16, 28. |
Pseudognaphalium canescens |
Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Nov(–Jan). | Flowering Apr–Oct. |
Habitat | Lava beds, rocky sites, grasslands, oak, pine-oak, and pine woodlands | Roadsides, fields and pastures, ditches, streambanks, seasonal ponds, gardens, and other disturbed sites |
Elevation | 1100–2500(–2700) m (3600–8200(–8900) ft) | 5–2000 m (0–6600 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NM; OK; TX; UT; Mexico
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AR; AZ; CA; FL; LA; NM; NV; NY; OR; TX; UT; WA; Mexico; Europe; Asia; Africa; Pacific Islands (New Zealand); Australia [Introduced in North America]
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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.) |
Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum is native to Eurasia. It is similar in overall habit to P. stramineum but distinctive in its larger heads and red-tipped corollas (visible through the translucent phyllaries). Cypselae of P. luteoalbum have papilliform hairs; cypselae of other North American species of Pseudognaphalium are glabrous. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 418. | FNA vol. 19, p. 418. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium canescens, Gnaphalium sonorae, Gnaphalium texanum, Gnaphalium viridulum, Gnaphalium wrightii | Gnaphalium luteoalbum |
Name authority | (de Candolle) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) | (Linnaeus) Hilliard & B. L. Burtt: Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 206. (1981) |
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