Pseudognaphalium microcephalum |
Pseudognaphalium pringlei |
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felt-leaf everlasting, San Diego rabbit-tobacco, Wright's cudweed |
Pringle's cudweed, Pringle's rabbit-tobacco |
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Habit | Perennials, (30–)50–100 cm; taprooted. | Annuals or perennials, 30–80 cm; taprooted. |
Stems | persistently grayish tomentose, not glandular, (3–5 mm diam. near bases). |
lightly white-tomentose and/or glabrescent and green, minutely stipitate- or sessile-glandular beneath other induments. |
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) oblanceolate-spatulate to obovate- or petiolate-spatulate, 5–10 cm × 10–20 mm (distal oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2–8 cm, slightly smaller), bases not clasping and decurrent 3–20 mm or clasping and decurrent 1–3 mm or not decurrent at all, margins flat to slightly revolute, faces bicolor, abaxial thinly white-tomentose, adaxial minutely stipitate- or sessile-glandular, otherwise glabrous or glabrate (bases of hairs persistent, enlarged). |
Involucres | turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
campanulate to turbinate, 3.5–4 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 29–49. |
15–40(–64). |
Bisexual florets | 5–9. |
(1–)2–6. |
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 2–3 series, silvery white to tawny, oblong to oblong-ovate, (hyaline, shiny), glabrous. |
Heads | in loose, corymbiform arrays. |
in loose, corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, smooth to weakly papillate-roughened. |
ridged, papillate-roughened. |
2n | = 28. |
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Pseudognaphalium microcephalum |
Pseudognaphalium pringlei |
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Phenology | Flowering (Apr–)Jun–Aug(–Nov). | Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Nov. |
Habitat | Grassy hillsides, gravelly canyon bottoms, chaparral, coastal sage scrub | Rock outcrops and slopes, crevices and thin soil on cliffs, oak or oak-pine woodlands |
Elevation | 50–900(–1800) m (200–3000(–5900) ft) | 1500–2300 m (4900–7500 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora) |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 419. | FNA vol. 19, p. 422. |
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 pringlei |
Name authority | (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) | (A. Gray) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991) |
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