Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
Pseudognaphalium thermale |
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white cudweed, white rabbit-tobacco |
northwestern rabbit-tobacco, slender cudweed, slender false cudweed, small head cudweed, Wright's cudweed |
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Habit | Biennials or short-lived perennials, 30–60 cm; taprooted. | Perennials, (20–)30–70 cm; taprooted. |
Stems | densely and persistently white-tomentose, usually with stipitate-glandular hairs protruding through tomentum. |
loosely tomentose, 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 narrowly oblanceolate, 3–8 cm × 3–6 mm (gradually smaller distally, becoming linear), bases not clasping, decurrent 5–14 mm, margins flat, faces concolor, loosely tomentose, sessile-glandular beneath tomentum. |
Involucres | broadly campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
turbinate-campanulate, (4–)5–6 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 66–85. |
35–55. |
Bisexual florets | (6–14, California)29–44. |
(2–)4–7. |
Phyllaries | in 5–7 series, bright white (opaque, dull), oblong to oblong-ovate, glabrous. |
in 3–4(–5) series, whitish (hyaline or opaque, usually shiny, sometimes dull), ovate to ovate-oblong (outer broadly acute, inner rounded-apiculate), glabrous. |
Heads | in corymbiform arrays. |
in loose to dense, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, smooth. |
ridged, densely papillate-roughened. |
2n | = 28. |
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Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
Pseudognaphalium thermale |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Nov(–Dec). | Flowering Jun–Sep(–Oct). |
Habitat | Sandy or gravelly slopes, stream bottoms, arroyos, areas of oak-sycamore, oak-pine, to pine woodlands, commonly in riparian vegetation | Dry, sandy road banks, roadside ditches, streambeds and banks, lakeshores, granitic sand, open woods of yellow pine, Jeffrey pine, red fir, Douglas fir, mixed conifer, and mixed evergreen |
Elevation | 50–2100 m (200–6900 ft) | (50–)300–2300(–2500) m ((200–)1000–7500(–8200) ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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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. 419. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium leucocephalum | Gnaphalium thermale, Gnaphalium canescens subsp. thermale, Gnaphalium johnstonii, Gnaphalium microcephalum var. thermale, Gnaphalium microcephalum subsp. thermale, P. canescens subsp. thermale, P. microcephalum var. thermale |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) | (E. E. Nelson) G. L. Nesom: Sida 21: 781. (2004) |
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