Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum |
Pseudognaphalium beneolens |
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Jersey cudweed, Jersey rabbit tobacco, red-tip rabbit-tobacco, weedy cudweed |
cudweed, fragrant rabbit-tobacco, Wright's cudweed |
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Habit | Annuals, 15–40 cm; taprooted or fibrous-rooted. | Annuals or short-lived perennials, 30–80(–110) cm; taprooted. |
Stems | loosely white-tomentose, not glandular. |
persistently tomentose, not glandular. |
Leaf | blades (crowded, internodes 1–5, sometimes to 10 mm) narrowly obovate to subspatulate, 1–3(–6) cm × 2–8 mm (distal smaller, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong or linear), bases subclasping, usually decurrent 1–2 mm, margins weakly revolute, faces mostly concolor to weakly bicolor, abaxial gray-tomentose, adaxial usually gray-tomentose, sometimes glabrescent, neither glandular. |
blades mostly linear, 3–6 cm × 1.5–3.5 mm (sometimes smaller distally), bases not clasping, decurrent 5–15 mm, margins flat, faces concolor, loosely tomentose, not glandular. |
Involucres | broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm. |
turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 135–160. |
(39–)44–69. |
Bisexual florets | 5–10 (corollas red-tipped). |
5–8(–11). |
Phyllaries | in 3–4 series, silvery gray to yellowish (hyaline), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous. |
in (4–)5–6(–7) series, white (opaque, dull to shiny), ovate to ovate-oblong (inner usually with filiform keel and slight apiculum), glabrous. |
Heads | in terminal glomerules (1–2 cm diam.). |
usually in loose, paniculiform arrays. |
Cypselae | not evidently ridged (conspicuously dotted with whitish, papilliform hairs; pappus bristles loosely coherent basally, released in clusters or easily fragmented rings). |
ridged, smooth or weakly papillate-roughened. |
2n | = 14, 16, 28. |
= 14. |
Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum |
Pseudognaphalium beneolens |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Oct. | Flowering (Apr–)Jun–Oct. |
Habitat | Roadsides, fields and pastures, ditches, streambanks, seasonal ponds, gardens, and other disturbed sites | Dry, open slopes and ridges, streambeds, road banks and other disturbed sites, sandy flats, dunes, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, yellow pine, foothill pine, blue oak woodland |
Elevation | 5–2000 m (0–6600 ft) | (1–)50–800(–2000) m ((0–)200–2600(–6600) ft) |
Distribution |
AR; AZ; CA; FL; LA; NM; NV; NY; OR; TX; UT; WA; Mexico; Europe; Asia; Africa; Pacific Islands (New Zealand); Australia [Introduced in North America]
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum is native to Eurasia. It is similar in overall habit to P. stramineum but distinctive in its larger heads and red-tipped corollas (visible through the translucent phyllaries). Cypselae of P. luteoalbum have papilliform hairs; cypselae of other North American species of Pseudognaphalium are glabrous. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Pseudognaphalium beneolens differs from P. thermale in its leaves linear throughout, heads usually in elongate, paniculiform arrays, larger heads (greater numbers of phyllaries in greater numbers of series) with phyllaries more opaque and duller, and greater numbers of bisexual florets. The cauline leaves of P. beneolens tend to become curving-coiling. In areas of sympatry, habitats of P. beneolens are characteristically at lower elevations than those of P. thermale. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 418. | FNA vol. 19, p. 419. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium luteoalbum | Gnaphalium beneolens, Gnaphalium canescens subsp. beneolens, P. canescens subsp. beneolens |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Hilliard & B. L. Burtt: Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 206. (1981) | (Davidson) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) |
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