Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum |
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white cudweed, white rabbit-tobacco |
pink cudweed, pink everlasting, pink rabbit-tobacco |
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Habit | Biennials or short-lived perennials, 30–60 cm; taprooted. | Biennials (sweetly fragrant), 50–120(–150) cm; taprooted. |
Stems | densely and persistently white-tomentose, usually with stipitate-glandular hairs protruding through tomentum. |
(erect) gray-tomentose, glabrescent, stipitate-glandular beneath tomentum. |
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 linear to lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly spatulate, (1–)3–7 cm × 3–5(–7) mm, bases not clasping, decurrent 2–10 mm, margins revolute and closely undulate, faces concolor, greenish, loosely tomentose, stipitate-glandular. |
Involucres | broadly campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
turbinate to short-cylindric, 5–6 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 66–85. |
38–62. |
Bisexual florets | (6–14, California)29–44. |
2–7. |
Phyllaries | in 5–7 series, bright white (opaque, dull), oblong to oblong-ovate, glabrous. |
in 4–5 series, usually pinkish, sometimes white or greenish (hyaline, dull), ovate to ovate-oblong, loosely tomentose (bases). |
Heads | in corymbiform arrays. |
usually in paniculiform (broadly columnar or at least as long as broad, sometimes pyramidal) arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, smooth. |
ridged, smooth. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Nov(–Dec). | Flowering Jul–Sep. |
Habitat | Sandy or gravelly slopes, stream bottoms, arroyos, areas of oak-sycamore, oak-pine, to pine woodlands, commonly in riparian vegetation | Dry, open slopes, sparsely wooded, sandy fields, dunes |
Elevation | 50–2100 m (200–6900 ft) | 20–600 m (100–2000 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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CA
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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. 425. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium leucocephalum | Gnaphalium ramosissimum |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) | (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) |
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