Pseudognaphalium microcephalum |
Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
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felt-leaf everlasting, San Diego rabbit-tobacco, Wright's cudweed |
white cudweed, white rabbit-tobacco |
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Habit | Perennials, (30–)50–100 cm; taprooted. | Biennials or short-lived perennials, 30–60 cm; taprooted. |
Stems | persistently grayish tomentose, not glandular, (3–5 mm diam. near bases). |
densely and persistently white-tomentose, usually with stipitate-glandular hairs protruding through tomentum. |
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 (crowded, internodes mostly 1–3, sometimes to 10 mm) linear-lanceolate, 3–7 cm × 1–5(–6) mm, bases subclasping, not decurrent, margins strongly revolute, faces bicolor, abaxial densely white-tomentose, adaxial green, densely stipitate-glandular. |
Involucres | turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
broadly campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 29–49. |
66–85. |
Bisexual florets | 5–9. |
(6–14, California)29–44. |
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 5–7 series, bright white (opaque, dull), oblong to oblong-ovate, glabrous. |
Heads | in loose, corymbiform arrays. |
in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, smooth to weakly papillate-roughened. |
ridged, smooth. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Pseudognaphalium microcephalum |
Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum |
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Phenology | Flowering (Apr–)Jun–Aug(–Nov). | Flowering (Jul–)Aug–Nov(–Dec). |
Habitat | Grassy hillsides, gravelly canyon bottoms, chaparral, coastal sage scrub | Sandy or gravelly slopes, stream bottoms, arroyos, areas of oak-sycamore, oak-pine, to pine woodlands, commonly in riparian vegetation |
Elevation | 50–900(–1800) m (200–3000(–5900) ft) | 50–2100 m (200–6900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AZ; CA; NM; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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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 leucocephalum is similar to P. viscosum, which has shiny, hyaline, ovate-lanceolate phyllaries, 200–250 pistillate florets, (13–)16–29 bisexual florets, and papillate-roughened cypselae. Some plants of P. leucocephalum also appear to approach P. biolettii in general appearance, and it is possible that some of them may represent hybrids. Plants of P. biolettii differ from P. leucocephalum in their typically eglandular stems, broader, basally ampliate, clasping, more widely spaced, and less densely glandular leaves, and thinner, shiny phyllaries. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 419. | FNA vol. 19, p. 423. |
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 leucocephalum |
Name authority | (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) | (A. Gray) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) |
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