Pseudognaphalium microcephalum |
Pseudognaphalium helleri |
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felt-leaf everlasting, San Diego rabbit-tobacco, Wright's cudweed |
Heller's cudweed, Heller's rabbit-tobacco |
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Habit | Perennials, (30–)50–100 cm; taprooted. | Annuals (fragrant), 30–100 cm; fibrous-rooted (roots relatively thick and lignescent). |
Stems | persistently grayish tomentose, not glandular, (3–5 mm diam. near bases). |
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 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. |
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 | turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
campanulate, 6–7 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 29–49. |
83–107. |
Bisexual florets | 5–9. |
9–15. |
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). |
in 4–6 series, white (opaque, shiny), ovate to ovate-oblong or oblong, ± tomentose. |
Heads | in loose, corymbiform arrays. |
in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, smooth to weakly papillate-roughened. |
ridged, smooth. |
2n | = 28. |
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Pseudognaphalium microcephalum |
Pseudognaphalium helleri |
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Phenology | Flowering (Apr–)Jun–Aug(–Nov). | Flowering Sep–Oct(–Nov). |
Habitat | Grassy hillsides, gravelly canyon bottoms, chaparral, coastal sage scrub | Dry woods and openings, clay and sandy clay, sand hills |
Elevation | 50–900(–1800) m (200–3000(–5900) ft) | 10–300 m (0–1000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA
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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.) |
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. 419. | FNA vol. 19, p. 421. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Gnaphalium microcephalum, Gnaphalium albidum, Gnaphalium canescens subsp. microcephalum, P. canescens subsp. microcephalum | Gnaphalium helleri, Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. helleri |
Name authority | (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) | (Britton) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) |
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