Pseudognaphalium macounii |
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium |
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gnaphale de Macoun, Macoun's cudweed, Macoun's everlasting, Macoun's rabbit-tobacco, sticky cudweed, winded cudweed, wing cudweed |
blunt-leaf rabbit-tobacco, eastern rabbit-tobacco, gnaphale à feuilles obtuses, old field balsam, rabbit-tobacco |
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Habit | Annuals or biennials (often sweetly fragrant), 40–90 cm; taprooted. | Annuals or winter annuals (sometimes faintly fragrant), (10–)30–100 cm; taprooted. |
Stems | stipitate-glandular throughout (usually persistently lightly white-tomentose distally). |
white-tomentose, sometimes lightly so, usually not glandular, rarely glandular near bases. |
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 linear-lanceolate to elliptic or oblanceolate, 2.5–10 cm × 2–10 mm (relatively even-sized), bases not clasping, not decurrent, margins flat, faces bicolor, abaxial white-tomentose, adaxial green, usually glabrous or slightly glandular, sometimes with persistent light tomentum. |
Involucres | campanulo-subglobose, 4.5–5.5 mm. |
broadly campanulate, 5–7 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 47–101(–156). |
38–96. |
Bisexual florets | 5–12[–21]. |
4–8(–11). |
Phyllaries | in 4–5 series, stramineous to creamy (hyaline, shiny), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous. |
in 4–6 series, white (opaque, usually shiny, sometimes dull), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous or tomentose (bases). |
Heads | in corymbiform arrays. |
in corymbiform (sometimes rounded to elongate) arrays. |
Cypselae | not ridged, ± papillate-roughened. |
ridged, smooth. |
Pseudognaphalium macounii |
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium |
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Phenology | Flowering July–Oct. | Flowering Aug–Oct. |
Habitat | Dry, open habitats, pastures, open woods or edges, roadsides | Open sites, often disturbed, roadsides, fields, pastures, open woods, in various soils, most abundantly in sand |
Elevation | 50–2600(–3000) m (200–8500(–9800) ft) | 5–200 m (0–700 ft) |
Distribution |
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; CT; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NH; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; NB; NS; ON; PE; QC
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 421. | FNA vol. 19, p. 420. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium macounii, Gnaphalium decurrens | Gnaphalium obtusifolium, Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. praecox |
Name authority | (Greene) Kartesz: in J. T. Kartesz and C. A. Meacham, Synth. N. Amer. Fl., nomencl. innov. 30. (1999) | (Linnaeus) Hilliard & B. L. Burtt: Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 205. (1981) |
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