Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
Pseudognaphalium pringlei |
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white cudweed, white rabbit-tobacco |
Pringle's cudweed, Pringle's rabbit-tobacco |
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Habit | Biennials or short-lived perennials, 30–60 cm; taprooted. | Annuals or perennials, 30–80 cm; taprooted. |
Stems | densely and persistently white-tomentose, usually with stipitate-glandular hairs protruding through tomentum. |
lightly white-tomentose and/or glabrescent and green, minutely stipitate- or sessile-glandular beneath other induments. |
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) oblanceolate-spatulate to obovate- or petiolate-spatulate, 5–10 cm × 10–20 mm (distal oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2–8 cm, slightly smaller), bases not clasping and decurrent 3–20 mm or clasping and decurrent 1–3 mm or not decurrent at all, margins flat to slightly revolute, faces bicolor, abaxial thinly white-tomentose, adaxial minutely stipitate- or sessile-glandular, otherwise glabrous or glabrate (bases of hairs persistent, enlarged). |
Involucres | broadly campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
campanulate to turbinate, 3.5–4 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 66–85. |
15–40(–64). |
Bisexual florets | (6–14, California)29–44. |
(1–)2–6. |
Phyllaries | in 5–7 series, bright white (opaque, dull), oblong to oblong-ovate, glabrous. |
in 2–3 series, silvery white to tawny, oblong to oblong-ovate, (hyaline, shiny), glabrous. |
Heads | in corymbiform arrays. |
in loose, corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, smooth. |
ridged, papillate-roughened. |
2n | = 28. |
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Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
Pseudognaphalium pringlei |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Nov(–Dec). | Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Nov. |
Habitat | Sandy or gravelly slopes, stream bottoms, arroyos, areas of oak-sycamore, oak-pine, to pine woodlands, commonly in riparian vegetation | Rock outcrops and slopes, crevices and thin soil on cliffs, oak or oak-pine woodlands |
Elevation | 50–2100 m (200–6900 ft) | 1500–2300 m (4900–7500 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora) |
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. 422. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium leucocephalum | Gnaphalium pringlei |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) | (A. Gray) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) |
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