Omalotheca norvegica
in F. W. Schultz, Arch. Fl., 311. 1861.
Common names: Norwegian Arctic-cudweed gnaphale de Norvège
Basionym: Gnaphalium norvegicum Gunnerus Fl. Norveg. 2: 105. 1772
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 439.
Plants 10–40 cm. Leaves basal and cauline, basal petiolate, blades 3-nerved, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–12 cm × 6–30 mm, distal cauline slightly smaller, oblanceolate, faces concolor or weakly bicolor, grayish, thinly woolly. Heads (10–60+) in compact, spiciform (leafy-bracteate, sometimes interrupted) arrays (1.5–14 cm, occupying 1/8–1/4 of plant heights, primary-axes usually not visible). Involucres cylindro-campanulate, 5.5–6 mm. Phyllaries brown to reddish-brown with narrow pale center and base. Cypselae cylindric, minutely strigose; pappus bristles basally connate, falling together. 2n = 56.
Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Wet or peaty slopes, alpine and subalpine meadows, cliff ledges, rocky slopes
Elevation: 400–1300 m
Distribution
Greenland, Nfld. and Labr., Que., Europe
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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tomentose +
greenish;white;grayish +
tailed +
introrse +
connate +
truncate-penicillate;truncate +
scarious +
hirsute +
papillate +
spiciform +
continuous +
cuneate +
3-nerved +
denticulate +
cauline +
distal +
oblanceolate;lanceolate;oblanceolate +
smaller +
stigmatic +
barbellate +
15;25 +
absent +
pale +
narrow +
actinomorphic +
monomorphic +
strigose +
cylindric +
staminate +
bisexual +
straight +
grayish;bicolor;concolor +
woolly +
papillate +
distinct +
proximal +
1;5 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
disciform +
indeterminate +
surrounding +
cylindro-campanulate +
petiolate +
alternate +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
anatropous +
connate +
falling +
persistent +
falling +
tough +
thick +
connate +
persistent +
distinct +
absent +
chartaceous +
unequal +
equal +
in F. W. Schultz, Arch. Fl., +
1861 +
absent +
epaleate +
flat;concave +
fibrous +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
1;2;3 +
alternate +
erect +
2-branched +
glabrous +
papillate +
Omalotheca norvegica +
Omalotheca +
species +
perennial +