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northwestern rabbit-tobacco, slender cudweed, slender false cudweed, small head cudweed, Wright's cudweed

California cudweed, California everlasting, California rabbit-tobacco, ladies' tobacco

Habit Perennials, (20–)30–70 cm; taprooted. Annuals, biennials, or perennials, 20–40 cm; taprooted.
Stems

loosely tomentose, not glandular.

stipitate-glandular, sometimes lightly villous as well.

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.

blades mostly narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 4–10 cm × 5–10(–20) mm (relatively even-sized distally), bases auriculate-clasping to subclasping or not, decurrent (2–10 mm) or not, margins flat or slightly revolute, faces concolor, mostly green, stipitate-glandular, viscid, sometimes lightly villous as well.

Involucres

turbinate-campanulate, (4–)5–6 mm.

campanulo-globose, 5.5–7 mm.

Pistillate florets

35–55.

105–140.

Bisexual florets

(2–)4–7.

7–12.

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.

in 7–10 series, white (opaque, shiny or dull), broadly ovate to oblong-obovate, glabrous.

Heads

in loose to dense, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.

in corymbiform arrays.

Cypselae

ridged, densely papillate-roughened.

ridged, smooth.

2n

= 28.

Pseudognaphalium thermale

Pseudognaphalium californicum

Phenology Flowering Jun–Sep(–Oct). Flowering Apr–Jul.
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 Sandy canyons, dry hills, coastal chaparral
Elevation (50–)300–2300(–2500) m ((200–)1000–7500(–8200) ft) 60–800 m (200–2600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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from FNA
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Leaf insertion in Pseudognaphalium californicum is unusually variable: bases may be clasping to subclasping without decurrent margins or decurrent and not show any clasping tendency.

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

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 419. FNA vol. 19, p. 423.
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. obtusifolium, P. pringlei, P. ramosissimum, P. roseum, P. saxicola, P. stramineum, P. viscosum
P. arizonicum, P. austrotexanum, P. beneolens, P. biolettii, 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 thermale, Gnaphalium canescens subsp. thermale, Gnaphalium johnstonii, Gnaphalium microcephalum var. thermale, Gnaphalium microcephalum subsp. thermale, P. canescens subsp. thermale, P. microcephalum var. thermale Gnaphalium californicum, Gnaphalium decurrens var. californicum
Name authority (E. E. Nelson) G. L. Nesom: Sida 21: 781. (2004) (de Candolle) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 147. (1991)
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