Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium |
Pseudognaphalium viscosum |
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blunt-leaf rabbit-tobacco, eastern rabbit-tobacco, gnaphale à feuilles obtuses, old field balsam, rabbit-tobacco |
sticky rabbit-tobacco, wing cudweed |
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Habit | Annuals or winter annuals (sometimes faintly fragrant), (10–)30–100 cm; taprooted. | Annuals (viscid and unpleasantly aromatic), 30–100 cm; taprooted. |
Stems | white-tomentose, sometimes lightly so, usually not glandular, rarely glandular near bases. |
persistently white-tomentose and stipitate-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-lanceolate, (2–)4–8 cm × 3–10 mm, bases not clasping, usually (at least the proximal) decurrent 3–10 mm, margins strongly revolute to revolute-undulate, faces bicolor, abaxial densely white-tomentose, adaxial densely stipitate-glandular. |
Involucres | broadly campanulate, 5–7 mm. |
campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 38–96. |
200–250. |
Bisexual florets | 4–8(–11). |
(13–)16–29. |
Phyllaries | in 4–6 series, white (opaque, usually shiny, sometimes dull), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous or tomentose (bases). |
in 5–6 series, tawny-silvery to silvery white (hyaline, shiny), ovate-lanceolate (not keeled or thickened along midribs, not apiculate), glabrous. |
Heads | in corymbiform (sometimes rounded to elongate) arrays. |
in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, smooth. |
not ridged, papillate-roughened. |
2n | = 28. |
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Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium |
Pseudognaphalium viscosum |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Oct. | Flowering Jul–Sep. |
Habitat | Open sites, often disturbed, roadsides, fields, pastures, open woods, in various soils, most abundantly in sand | Rocky open sites, roadsides |
Elevation | 5–200 m (0–700 ft) | 1400–1800 m (4600–5900 ft) |
Distribution |
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; Central America
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Discussion | Reports of Pseudognaphalium viscosum from the flora for states other than Texas are based on plants of P. macounii. Pseudognaphalium viscosum is similar to P. leucocephalum, which has broader and white-opaque phyllaries, longer bisexual corollas, and smooth cypselae. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 420. | FNA vol. 19, p. 422. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium obtusifolium, Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. praecox | Gnaphalium viscosum |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Hilliard & B. L. Burtt: Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 205. (1981) | (Kunth) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 148. (1991) |
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