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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

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

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
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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; 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.)

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 421. FNA vol. 19, p. 420.
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. helleri, P. jaliscense, P. leucocephalum, P. luteoalbum, P. macounii, P. micradenium, P. microcephalum, P. pringlei, P. ramosissimum, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. thermale, P. viscosum
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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