Gamochaeta ustulata

(Nuttall) Holub

Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 11: 83. 1976.

Common names: Featherweed Pacific cudweed
Endemic
Basionym: Gnaphalium ustulatum Nuttall Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 404. 1841
Synonyms: Gnaphalium pannosum Gandoger Gnaphalium purpureum var. ustulatum (Nuttall) B. Boivin
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 435. Mentioned on page 432.

Annuals, biennials, or perennials, 10–40 cm; fibrous-rooted. Stems erect to ascending (commonly decumbent-ascending and rhizome like), densely white-pannose. Leaves basal and cauline, basal usually withering before flowering, blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 2–5 cm × 6–12 (–35) mm (little smaller distally), faces bicolor, abaxial white-pannose, adaxial sparsely to densely arachnose-tomentose. Heads in usually continuous, rarely interrupted (proximally), cylindric arrays 1–6 (–8+) cm × 12–18 mm (pressed). Involucres campanulo-urceolate, 4.5–5 mm, bases sparsely arachnose. Phyllaries in 4–6 series, outer (brown or greenish brown) broadly ovate-triangular, lengths ca. 1/2 inner, apices acute to acute-acuminate (mid phyllaries ± keeled near apices), inner oblong, laminae usually dark-brown, sometimes purplish (at stereome-lamina junction), apices rounded to obtuse, apiculate. Florets: bisexual (3–) 4–6; all corollas usually yellowish, sometimes purplish distally. Cypselae (tan to brownish) 0.7–0.8 mm.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Jul(–Oct).
Habitat: Mostly coastal and near-coastal sites, dunes, ocean bluffs, sandy fields, and roadsides, clay-loam, roadcuts, ditches, cliffs, pine woods, chaparral slopes, tidal marsh edges
Elevation: 0–700(–1100) m

Distribution

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B.C., Calif., Oreg., Wash.

Discussion

Gamochaeta ustulata usually has been included in G. purpurea; it differs mostly in its longer duration, thicker and shorter stems, larger, more compact arrays of larger, brown heads, and aspects of phyllary morphology.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Gamochaeta ustulata"
gray +  and white +
pannose-tomentose +  and tomentose +
subpannose +, tomentose +, arachnose +, glabrous +  and glabrescent +
acute +  and acute-acuminate +
rounded;obtuse +
scarious +
mostly ovate +  and lanceovate or linear +
interrupted +  and continuous +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
cylindric +
12mm +  and 18mm +
Guy L. Nesom +
(Nuttall) Holub +
cuneate +  and more or less cordate +
Gnaphalium ustulatum +
compound +  and simple +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
arachnose-tomentose +  and white-pannose +
spatulate;oblanceolate +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
5-ribbed +, 3-ribbed +  and 2-ribbed +
muriculate +, papillate +  and smooth +
Featherweed +  and Pacific cudweed +
actinomorphic +
purplish +  and yellowish +
flattened +  and oblong +
B.C. +, Calif. +, Oreg. +  and Wash. +
0–700(–1100) m +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
arachnose-tomentose +  and white-pannose +
spatulate;oblanceolate +
6mm;12mm +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Mostly coastal and near-coastal sites, dunes, ocean bluffs, sandy fields, and roadsides, clay-loam, roadcuts, ditches, cliffs, pine woods, chaparral slopes, tidal marsh edges +
papilliform +
singly +  and aggregated +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
campanulo-urceolate +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
purplish +  and dark-brown +
basal +  and cauline +
rarely lanceovate +  and lanceolate +
ovate-triangular +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
Flowering Apr–Jul(–Oct). +
Folia Geobot. Phytotax. +
conic;more or less columnar +
exalbuminous +
erect +  and ascending +
white-pannose +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Gnaphalium pannosum +  and Gnaphalium purpureum var. ustulatum +
Gamochaeta ustulata +
Gamochaeta +
species +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +