Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
Pseudognaphalium biolettii |
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white cudweed, white rabbit-tobacco |
Bioletti's rabbit-tobacco, two-color rabbit-tobacco, two-tone everlasting |
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Habit | Biennials or short-lived perennials, 30–60 cm; taprooted. | Perennials (fragrant), 20–70(–120) cm; taprooted. |
Stems | densely and persistently white-tomentose, usually with stipitate-glandular hairs protruding through tomentum. |
(sometimes lignescent near bases) proximally glabrescent, distally persistently tomentose, at least in the region of the heads, 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 (not crowded, internodes mostly 5+ mm), oblong-oblanceolate to oblanceolate (the distal lanceolate), 1.5–5(–8) cm × 4–10(–15) mm, bases auriculate-clasping, not decurrent, margins flat or slightly revolute, often undulate, faces bicolor (at least basal and proximal cauline), abaxial white-tomentose, adaxial bright green and ± densely glandular. |
Involucres | broadly campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
turbinate-campanulate, 5–5.5(–6) mm. |
Pistillate florets | 66–85. |
41–73. |
Bisexual florets | (6–14, California)29–44. |
5–13. |
Phyllaries | in 5–7 series, bright white (opaque, dull), oblong to oblong-ovate, glabrous. |
in 4–5 series, white or sometimes slightly pinkish (opaque, shiny), ovate to oblong-ovate or oblong (often longitudinally wrinkled or grooved), glabrous. |
Heads | in corymbiform arrays. |
in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, smooth. |
ridged, smooth. |
2n | = 28. |
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Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
Pseudognaphalium biolettii |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Nov(–Dec). | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Oct). |
Habitat | Sandy or gravelly slopes, stream bottoms, arroyos, areas of oak-sycamore, oak-pine, to pine woodlands, commonly in riparian vegetation | Rocky slopes, roadsides, sandy plains with Larrea, coastal strand, matorral, and chaparral |
Elevation | 50–2100 m (200–6900 ft) | 5–600(–1200) m (0–2000(–3900) ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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CA; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur)
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 423. | FNA vol. 19, p. 423. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium leucocephalum | Gnaphalium bicolor |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) | Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) |
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