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

pink cudweed, pink everlasting, pink rabbit-tobacco

Habit Annuals or biennials (often sweetly fragrant), 40–90 cm; taprooted. Biennials (sweetly fragrant), 50–120(–150) cm; taprooted.
Stems

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

(erect) gray-tomentose, glabrescent, stipitate-glandular beneath tomentum.

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 to lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly spatulate, (1–)3–7 cm × 3–5(–7) mm, bases not clasping, decurrent 2–10 mm, margins revolute and closely undulate, faces concolor, greenish, loosely tomentose, stipitate-glandular.

Involucres

campanulo-subglobose, 4.5–5.5 mm.

turbinate to short-cylindric, 5–6 mm.

Pistillate florets

47–101(–156).

38–62.

Bisexual florets

5–12[–21].

2–7.

Phyllaries

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

in 4–5 series, usually pinkish, sometimes white or greenish (hyaline, dull), ovate to ovate-oblong, loosely tomentose (bases).

Heads

in corymbiform arrays.

usually in paniculiform (broadly columnar or at least as long as broad, sometimes pyramidal) arrays.

Cypselae

not ridged, ± papillate-roughened.

ridged, smooth.

2n

= 28.

Pseudognaphalium macounii

Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum

Phenology Flowering July–Oct. Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Dry, open habitats, pastures, open woods or edges, roadsides Dry, open slopes, sparsely wooded, sandy fields, dunes
Elevation 50–2600(–3000) m (200–8500(–9800) ft) 20–600 m (100–2000 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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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. 425.
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. obtusifolium, P. pringlei, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. thermale, P. viscosum
Synonyms Gnaphalium macounii, Gnaphalium decurrens Gnaphalium ramosissimum
Name authority (Greene) Kartesz: in J. T. Kartesz and C. A. Meacham, Synth. N. Amer. Fl., nomencl. innov. 30. (1999) (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991)
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