Pseudognaphalium microcephalum |
Pseudognaphalium micradenium |
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felt-leaf everlasting, San Diego rabbit-tobacco, Wright's cudweed |
delicate rabbit-tobacco, Weatherby's rabbit-tobacco |
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Habit | Perennials, (30–)50–100 cm; taprooted. | Annuals (fragrant), 15–60 cm; taprooted or fibrous-rooted. |
Stems | persistently grayish tomentose, not glandular, (3–5 mm diam. near bases). |
glandular-puberulent (without persistent tomentum), stipitate glands 0.1–0.2 mm, stalks narrower than 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 linear to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 1.5–5.5 cm × 1.5–10 mm, bases not clasping, not decurrent, margins flat, faces bicolor, abaxial white to gray, tomentose, adaxial green, both minutely stipitate-glandular. |
Involucres | turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 29–49. |
47–78. |
Bisexual florets | 5–9. |
(7–)11–20. |
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 to tawny white (hyaline, shiny), narrowly ovate to oblong, glabrous. |
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 micradenium |
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Phenology | Flowering (Apr–)Jun–Aug(–Nov). | Flowering Sep–Oct. |
Habitat | Grassy hillsides, gravelly canyon bottoms, chaparral, coastal sage scrub | Dry woods and openings, roadsides |
Elevation | 50–900(–1800) m (200–3000(–5900) ft) | 10–600 m (0–2000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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GA; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; NC; NH; NJ; NY; PA; SC; TN; VA; WI |
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 micradenium has a more northern and Appalachian distribution than P. helleri. A report of P. micradenium for Louisiana probably was based on specimens of P. helleri. The two species differ in vestiture and other features; stems of P. micradenium are more slender than those of its close relatives. (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 obtusifolium var. micradenium, Gnaphalium helleri var. micradenium, P. helleri subsp. micradenium |
Name authority | (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) | (Weatherby) G. L. Nesom: Sida 19: 618. (2001) |
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