Flora of North America species comparison

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Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum

pink cudweed, pink everlasting, pink rabbit-tobacco
Habit Biennials (sweetly fragrant), 50–120(–150) cm; taprooted.
Stems

(erect) gray-tomentose, glabrescent, stipitate-glandular beneath tomentum.
Leaf

blades linear to lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly spatulate, (1–)3–7 cm × 3–5(–7) mm, bases not clasping, decurrent 2–10 mm, margins revolute and closely undulate, faces concolor, greenish, loosely tomentose, stipitate-glandular.
Involucres

turbinate to short-cylindric, 5–6 mm.
Pistillate florets

38–62.
Bisexual florets

2–7.
Phyllaries

in 4–5 series, usually pinkish, sometimes white or greenish (hyaline, dull), ovate to ovate-oblong, loosely tomentose (bases).
Heads

usually in paniculiform (broadly columnar or at least as long as broad, sometimes pyramidal) arrays.
Cypselae

ridged, smooth.
2n

= 28.

Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum
Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Dry, open slopes, sparsely wooded, sandy fields, dunes
Elevation 20–600 m (100–2000 ft)
Distribution
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CA
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Source FNA vol. 19, p. 425.
Parent taxa 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. obtusifolium, P. pringlei, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. thermale, P. viscosum
Synonyms Gnaphalium ramosissimum
Name authority (Nuttall) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991)
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