Pseudognaphalium helleri |
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Heller's cudweed, Heller's rabbit-tobacco |
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Habit | Annuals (fragrant), 30–100 cm; fibrous-rooted (roots relatively thick and lignescent). |
Stems | greenish, glandular-villous (without persistent tomentum, stipitate glands mostly 0.3–1 mm, often variable, stalks broadened toward bases, about equaling gland widths). |
Leaf | blades mostly oblong-lanceolate, 2.5–7 cm × 4–20 mm, bases not clasping, not decurrent, margins flat, faces bicolor, abaxial white to gray with lightly persistent tomentum, adaxial green, both minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Involucres | campanulate, 6–7 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 83–107. |
Bisexual florets | 9–15. |
Phyllaries | in 4–6 series, white (opaque, shiny), ovate to ovate-oblong or oblong, ± tomentose. |
Heads | in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, smooth. |
Pseudognaphalium helleri |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–Oct(–Nov). |
Habitat | Dry woods and openings, clay and sandy clay, sand hills |
Elevation | 10–300 m (0–1000 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion | Pseudognaphalium helleri and P. micradenium are similar to P. obtusifolium in most features; both differ in their glandular stems without the persistent whitish tomentum of P. obtusifolium. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 421. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium helleri, Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. helleri |
Name authority | (Britton) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) |
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