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blunt-leaf rabbit-tobacco, eastern rabbit-tobacco, gnaphale à feuilles obtuses, old field balsam, rabbit-tobacco

South Texas rabbit-tobacco, Texas rabbit-tobacco

Habit Annuals or winter annuals (sometimes faintly fragrant), (10–)30–100 cm; taprooted. Annuals, 30–70 cm; taprooted.
Stems

white-tomentose, sometimes lightly so, usually not glandular, rarely glandular near bases.

densely and closely white-tomentose-floccose, glabrescent, not glandular.

Leaf

blades linear-lanceolate to elliptic or oblanceolate, 2.5–10 cm × 2–10 mm (relatively even-sized), bases not clasping, not decurrent, margins flat, faces bicolor, abaxial white-tomentose, adaxial green, usually glabrous or slightly glandular, sometimes with persistent light tomentum.

blades (crowded, internodes mostly 1–3, sometimes to 10 mm) linear to linear-lanceolate, 2–5 cm × 1–3 mm, bases subclasping, not decurrent, margins strongly revolute, sometimes closely sinuate, faces bicolor, abaxial densely and closely white-tomentose, adaxial green, densely stipitate-glandular, otherwise glabrate.

Involucres

broadly campanulate, 5–7 mm.

broadly campanulate, 4.5–5 mm.

Pistillate florets

38–96.

[46–]76–102.

Bisexual florets

4–8(–11).

(6–)8–11.

Phyllaries

in 4–6 series, white (opaque, usually shiny, sometimes dull), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous or tomentose (bases).

in 5–7 series, silvery white (hyaline, shiny), narrowly ovate to oblong or elliptic (apices of inner thickened and slightly raised along midribs, apiculate), glabrous.

Heads

in corymbiform (sometimes rounded to elongate) arrays.

in corymbiform arrays.

Cypselae

ridged, smooth.

ridged, papillate-roughened.

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium

Pseudognaphalium austrotexanum

Phenology Flowering Aug–Oct. Flowering Oct–Dec(–Jan).
Habitat Open sites, often disturbed, roadsides, fields, pastures, open woods, in various soils, most abundantly in sand Sandy soil in pastures, grasslands, open disturbed sites
Elevation 5–200 m (0–700 ft) 0–10[–600] m (0–0[–2000] ft)
Distribution
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AL; AR; CT; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NH; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; NB; NS; ON; PE; QC
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TX; Mexico (Nuevo León)
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Discussion

Pseudognaphalium austrotexanum is similar to P. viscosum in general appearance: taprooted annuals with stems white-tomentose, strictly erect, and mostly unbranched proximal to heads, leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, strongly bicolor (green and glandular adaxially, white-tomentose abaxially), loosely to strictly ascending, crowded on relatively short internodes and continuing to immediately proximal to the heads, and basally subclasping but not strongly auriculate, phyllaries silvery white, thin, and hyaline, and cypselae minutely papillate-roughened.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 420. FNA vol. 19, p. 422.
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. microcephalum, P. pringlei, P. ramosissimum, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. thermale, P. viscosum
P. arizonicum, P. beneolens, P. biolettii, P. californicum, P. canescens, P. helleri, P. jaliscense, P. leucocephalum, P. luteoalbum, P. macounii, P. micradenium, P. microcephalum, P. obtusifolium, P. pringlei, P. ramosissimum, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. thermale, P. viscosum
Synonyms Gnaphalium obtusifolium, Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. praecox
Name authority (Linnaeus) Hilliard & B. L. Burtt: Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 205. (1981) G. L. Nesom: Sida 19: 507, fig. 1. (2001)
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