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felt-leaf everlasting, San Diego rabbit-tobacco, Wright's cudweed

Habit Perennials, (30–)50–100 cm; taprooted.
Stems

persistently grayish tomentose, not glandular, (3–5 mm diam. near bases).

Leaf

blades narrowly oblanceolate, 2–5(–8) cm × 5–10(–18) mm (gradually smaller distally, becoming lanceolate), bases not clasping, not decurrent, margins flat, faces weakly bicolor, tomentose (adaxial less densely), not glandular.

Involucres

turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm.

Pistillate florets

29–49.

Bisexual florets

5–9.

Phyllaries

in 4–5 series, white (opaque, dull), ovate to oblong-ovate (inner narrower, all usually with filiform but definitely thickened keel and slight apiculum), tomentose (at least bases).

Heads

in loose, corymbiform arrays.

Cypselae

ridged, smooth to weakly papillate-roughened.

2n

= 28.

Pseudognaphalium microcephalum

Phenology Flowering (Apr–)Jun–Aug(–Nov).
Habitat Grassy hillsides, gravelly canyon bottoms, chaparral, coastal sage scrub
Elevation 50–900(–1800) m (200–3000(–5900) ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Pseudognaphalium microcephalum is characterized by stems commonly stiffly erect and slightly zigzag distally, relatively thick (3–5 mm diam. near bases), and closely grayish tomentose, leaves oblanceolate, sessile, sometimes clasping, not decurrent, and weakly bicolor, and heads usually in open, corymbiform arrays.

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

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 419.
Parent taxa 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. macounii, P. micradenium, P. obtusifolium, P. pringlei, P. ramosissimum, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. thermale, P. viscosum
Synonyms Gnaphalium microcephalum, Gnaphalium albidum, Gnaphalium canescens subsp. microcephalum, P. canescens subsp. microcephalum
Name authority (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991)
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