Pseudognaphalium thermale |
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northwestern rabbit-tobacco, slender cudweed, slender false cudweed, small head cudweed, Wright's cudweed |
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Habit | Perennials, (20–)30–70 cm; taprooted. |
Stems | loosely tomentose, not glandular. |
Leaf | blades narrowly oblanceolate, 3–8 cm × 3–6 mm (gradually smaller distally, becoming linear), bases not clasping, decurrent 5–14 mm, margins flat, faces concolor, loosely tomentose, sessile-glandular beneath tomentum. |
Involucres | turbinate-campanulate, (4–)5–6 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 35–55. |
Bisexual florets | (2–)4–7. |
Phyllaries | in 3–4(–5) series, whitish (hyaline or opaque, usually shiny, sometimes dull), ovate to ovate-oblong (outer broadly acute, inner rounded-apiculate), glabrous. |
Heads | in loose to dense, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. |
Cypselae | ridged, densely papillate-roughened. |
Pseudognaphalium thermale |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Sep(–Oct). |
Habitat | Dry, sandy road banks, roadside ditches, streambeds and banks, lakeshores, granitic sand, open woods of yellow pine, Jeffrey pine, red fir, Douglas fir, mixed conifer, and mixed evergreen |
Elevation | (50–)300–2300(–2500) m ((200–)1000–7500(–8200) ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 419. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium thermale, Gnaphalium canescens subsp. thermale, Gnaphalium johnstonii, Gnaphalium microcephalum var. thermale, Gnaphalium microcephalum subsp. thermale, P. canescens subsp. thermale, P. microcephalum var. thermale |
Name authority | (E. E. Nelson) G. L. Nesom: Sida 21: 781. (2004) |
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