Pseudognaphalium microcephalum |
Pseudognaphalium macounii |
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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 |
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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. |
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Pseudognaphalium microcephalum |
Pseudognaphalium macounii |
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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 |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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 |
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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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