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gnaphale de Macoun, Macoun's cudweed, Macoun's everlasting, Macoun's rabbit-tobacco, sticky cudweed, winded cudweed, wing cudweed

Heller's cudweed, Heller's rabbit-tobacco

Habit Annuals or biennials (often sweetly fragrant), 40–90 cm; taprooted. Annuals (fragrant), 30–100 cm; fibrous-rooted (roots relatively thick and lignescent).
Stems

stipitate-glandular throughout (usually persistently lightly white-tomentose distally).

greenish, glandular-villous (without persistent tomentum, stipitate glands mostly 0.3–1 mm, often variable, stalks broadened toward bases, about equaling gland widths).

Leaf

blades (not crowded, internodes mostly 5+ mm) lanceolate to oblanceolate, 3–10 cm × 3–13 mm (distal linear), bases not clasping, decurrent 5–10 mm, margins flat to slightly revolute, faces weakly bicolor, abaxial tomentose, adaxial stipitate-glandular, otherwise glabrescent or glabrous.

blades mostly oblong-lanceolate, 2.5–7 cm × 4–20 mm, bases not clasping, not decurrent, margins flat, faces bicolor, abaxial white to gray with lightly persistent tomentum, adaxial green, both minutely stipitate-glandular.

Involucres

campanulo-subglobose, 4.5–5.5 mm.

campanulate, 6–7 mm.

Pistillate florets

47–101(–156).

83–107.

Bisexual florets

5–12[–21].

9–15.

Phyllaries

in 4–5 series, stramineous to creamy (hyaline, shiny), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous.

in 4–6 series, white (opaque, shiny), ovate to ovate-oblong or oblong, ± tomentose.

Heads

in corymbiform arrays.

in corymbiform arrays.

Cypselae

not ridged, ± papillate-roughened.

ridged, smooth.

Pseudognaphalium macounii

Pseudognaphalium helleri

Phenology Flowering July–Oct. Flowering Sep–Oct(–Nov).
Habitat Dry, open habitats, pastures, open woods or edges, roadsides Dry woods and openings, clay and sandy clay, sand hills
Elevation 50–2600(–3000) m (200–8500(–9800) ft) 10–300 m (0–1000 ft)
Distribution
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AZ; CA; CO; CT; ID; IL; IN; MA; ME; MI; MN; MT; NH; NM; NY; OH; OR; PA; SD; TN; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NS; ON; PE; QC; SK; Mexico
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AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion

Pseudognaphalium macounii is recognized by its stipitate-glandular, proximally glabrescent stems, bicolor and decurrent leaves, relatively large and many-flowered heads, and hyaline, shiny phyllaries. Reports of P. macounii from Texas are based on specimens of P. viscosum.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Pseudognaphalium helleri and P. micradenium are similar to P. obtusifolium in most features; both differ in their glandular stems without the persistent whitish tomentum of P. obtusifolium.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 421. FNA vol. 19, p. 421.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium
Sibling taxa
P. arizonicum, P. austrotexanum, P. beneolens, P. biolettii, P. californicum, P. canescens, P. helleri, P. jaliscense, P. leucocephalum, P. luteoalbum, P. micradenium, P. microcephalum, P. obtusifolium, P. pringlei, P. ramosissimum, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. thermale, P. viscosum
P. arizonicum, P. austrotexanum, P. beneolens, P. biolettii, P. californicum, P. canescens, P. jaliscense, P. leucocephalum, P. luteoalbum, P. macounii, P. micradenium, P. microcephalum, P. obtusifolium, P. pringlei, P. ramosissimum, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. thermale, P. viscosum
Synonyms Gnaphalium macounii, Gnaphalium decurrens Gnaphalium helleri, Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. helleri
Name authority (Greene) Kartesz: in J. T. Kartesz and C. A. Meacham, Synth. N. Amer. Fl., nomencl. innov. 30. (1999) (Britton) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991)
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