Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
Pseudognaphalium austrotexanum |
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white cudweed, white rabbit-tobacco |
South Texas rabbit-tobacco, Texas rabbit-tobacco |
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Habit | Biennials or short-lived perennials, 30–60 cm; taprooted. | Annuals, 30–70 cm; taprooted. |
Stems | densely and persistently white-tomentose, usually with stipitate-glandular hairs protruding through tomentum. |
densely and closely white-tomentose-floccose, glabrescent, not glandular. |
Leaf | blades (crowded, internodes mostly 1–3, sometimes to 10 mm) linear-lanceolate, 3–7 cm × 1–5(–6) mm, bases subclasping, not decurrent, margins strongly revolute, faces bicolor, abaxial densely white-tomentose, adaxial green, densely stipitate-glandular. |
blades (crowded, internodes mostly 1–3, sometimes to 10 mm) linear to linear-lanceolate, 2–5 cm × 1–3 mm, bases subclasping, not decurrent, margins strongly revolute, sometimes closely sinuate, faces bicolor, abaxial densely and closely white-tomentose, adaxial green, densely stipitate-glandular, otherwise glabrate. |
Involucres | broadly campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
broadly campanulate, 4.5–5 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 66–85. |
[46–]76–102. |
Bisexual florets | (6–14, California)29–44. |
(6–)8–11. |
Phyllaries | in 5–7 series, bright white (opaque, dull), oblong to oblong-ovate, glabrous. |
in 5–7 series, silvery white (hyaline, shiny), narrowly ovate to oblong or elliptic (apices of inner thickened and slightly raised along midribs, apiculate), glabrous. |
Heads | in corymbiform arrays. |
in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, smooth. |
ridged, papillate-roughened. |
2n | = 28. |
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Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
Pseudognaphalium austrotexanum |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Nov(–Dec). | Flowering Oct–Dec(–Jan). |
Habitat | Sandy or gravelly slopes, stream bottoms, arroyos, areas of oak-sycamore, oak-pine, to pine woodlands, commonly in riparian vegetation | Sandy soil in pastures, grasslands, open disturbed sites |
Elevation | 50–2100 m (200–6900 ft) | 0–10[–600] m (0–0[–2000] ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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TX; Mexico (Nuevo León) |
Discussion | Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum is similar to P. viscosum, which has shiny, hyaline, ovate-lanceolate phyllaries, 200–250 pistillate florets, (13–)16–29 bisexual florets, and papillate-roughened cypselae. Some plants of P. leucocephalum also appear to approach P. biolettii in general appearance, and it is possible that some of them may represent hybrids. Plants of P. biolettii differ from P. leucocephalum in their typically eglandular stems, broader, basally ampliate, clasping, more widely spaced, and less densely glandular leaves, and thinner, shiny phyllaries. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Pseudognaphalium austrotexanum is similar to P. viscosum in general appearance: taprooted annuals with stems white-tomentose, strictly erect, and mostly unbranched proximal to heads, leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, strongly bicolor (green and glandular adaxially, white-tomentose abaxially), loosely to strictly ascending, crowded on relatively short internodes and continuing to immediately proximal to the heads, and basally subclasping but not strongly auriculate, phyllaries silvery white, thin, and hyaline, and cypselae minutely papillate-roughened. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 423. | FNA vol. 19, p. 422. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium leucocephalum | |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) | G. L. Nesom: Sida 19: 507, fig. 1. (2001) |
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