Pseudognaphalium viscosum |
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sticky rabbit-tobacco, wing cudweed |
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Habit | Annuals (viscid and unpleasantly aromatic), 30–100 cm; taprooted. |
Stems | persistently white-tomentose and stipitate-glandular. |
Leaf | 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 | campanulate, 5–6 mm. |
Pistillate florets | 200–250. |
Bisexual florets | (13–)16–29. |
Phyllaries | 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 arrays. |
Cypselae | not ridged, papillate-roughened. |
2n | = 28. |
Pseudognaphalium viscosum |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. |
Habitat | Rocky open sites, roadsides |
Elevation | 1400–1800 m (4600–5900 ft) |
Distribution |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 422. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Pseudognaphalium |
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Synonyms | Gnaphalium viscosum |
Name authority | (Kunth) Anderberg: Opera Bot. 104: 148. (1991) |
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