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

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

Habit Perennials, (30–)50–100 cm; taprooted. Annuals or biennials (often sweetly fragrant), 40–90 cm; taprooted.
Stems

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

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

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 (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.

Involucres

turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm.

campanulo-subglobose, 4.5–5.5 mm.

Pistillate florets

29–49.

47–101(–156).

Bisexual florets

5–9.

5–12[–21].

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

Heads

in loose, corymbiform arrays.

in corymbiform arrays.

Cypselae

ridged, smooth to weakly papillate-roughened.

not ridged, ± papillate-roughened.

2n

= 28.

Pseudognaphalium microcephalum

Pseudognaphalium macounii

Phenology Flowering (Apr–)Jun–Aug(–Nov). Flowering July–Oct.
Habitat Grassy hillsides, gravelly canyon bottoms, chaparral, coastal sage scrub Dry, open habitats, pastures, open woods or edges, roadsides
Elevation 50–900(–1800) m (200–3000(–5900) ft) 50–2600(–3000) m (200–8500(–9800) ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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from FNA
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 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 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. 419. FNA vol. 19, p. 421.
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. luteoalbum, 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 macounii, Gnaphalium decurrens
Name authority (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) (Greene) Kartesz: in J. T. Kartesz and C. A. Meacham, Synth. N. Amer. Fl., nomencl. innov. 30. (1999)
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