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Pseudognaphalium microcephalum

Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum

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

Jersey cudweed, Jersey rabbit tobacco, red-tip rabbit-tobacco, weedy cudweed
Habit Perennials, (30–)50–100 cm; taprooted. Annuals, 15–40 cm; taprooted or fibrous-rooted.
Stems

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

loosely white-tomentose, not glandular.
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 1–5, sometimes to 10 mm) narrowly obovate to subspatulate, 1–3(–6) cm × 2–8 mm (distal smaller, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong or linear), bases subclasping, usually decurrent 1–2 mm, margins weakly revolute, faces mostly concolor to weakly bicolor, abaxial gray-tomentose, adaxial usually gray-tomentose, sometimes glabrescent, neither glandular.
Involucres

turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm.

broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm.
Pistillate florets

29–49.

135–160.
Bisexual florets

5–9.

5–10 (corollas red-tipped).
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 3–4 series, silvery gray to yellowish (hyaline), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous.
Heads

in loose, corymbiform arrays.

in terminal glomerules (1–2 cm diam.).
Cypselae

ridged, smooth to weakly papillate-roughened.

not evidently ridged (conspicuously dotted with whitish, papilliform hairs; pappus bristles loosely coherent basally, released in clusters or easily fragmented rings).
2n

= 28.

= 14, 16, 28.

Pseudognaphalium microcephalum

Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum
Phenology Flowering (Apr–)Jun–Aug(–Nov). Flowering Apr–Oct.
Habitat Grassy hillsides, gravelly canyon bottoms, chaparral, coastal sage scrub Roadsides, fields and pastures, ditches, streambanks, seasonal ponds, gardens, and other disturbed sites
Elevation 50–900(–1800) m (200–3000(–5900) ft) 5–2000 m (0–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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from FNA
AR; AZ; CA; FL; LA; NM; NV; NY; OR; TX; UT; WA; Mexico; Europe; Asia; Africa; Pacific Islands (New Zealand); Australia [Introduced in North America]
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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 luteoalbum is native to Eurasia. It is similar in overall habit to P. stramineum but distinctive in its larger heads and red-tipped corollas (visible through the translucent phyllaries). Cypselae of P. luteoalbum have papilliform hairs; cypselae of other North American species of Pseudognaphalium are glabrous.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 419. FNA vol. 19, p. 418.
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. macounii, P. micradenium, 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. macounii, P. micradenium, P. microcephalum, 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 Gnaphalium luteoalbum
Name authority (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) (Linnaeus) Hilliard & B. L. Burtt: Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 206. (1981)
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