Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum

(Nuttall) Anderberg

Opera Bot. 104: 147. 1991.

Common names: Pink rabbit-tobacco
Endemic
Basionym: Gnaphalium ramosissimum Nuttall Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 4: 20. 1848
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 425. Mentioned on page 415, 417.

Biennials (sweetly fragrant), 50–120 (–150) cm; taprooted. Stems (erect) gray-tomentose, glabrescent, stipitate-glandular beneath tomentum. Leaf-blades linear to lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly spatulate, (1–) 3–7 cm × 3–5 (–7) mm, bases not clasping, decurrent 2–10 mm, margins revolute and closely undulate, faces concolor, greenish, loosely tomentose, stipitate-glandular. Heads usually in paniculiform (broadly columnar or at least as long as broad, sometimes pyramidal) arrays. Involucres turbinate to short-cylindric, 5–6 mm. Phyllaries in 4–5 series, usually pinkish, sometimes white or greenish (hyaline, dull), ovate to ovate-oblong, loosely tomentose (bases). Pistillate florets 38–62. Bisexual florets 2–7. Cypselae ridged, smooth. 2n = 28.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Dry, open slopes, sparsely wooded, sandy fields, dunes
Elevation: 20–600 m

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
white +  and gray +
tomentose +  and velutinous +
grayish;greenish +
arachnose +, glabrescent +  and glabrous +
truncate-penicillate;truncate +
scarious +
mostly ovate +  and lanceovate or linear +
paniculiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Guy L. Nesom +
(Nuttall) Anderberg +
decurrent +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Gnaphalium ramosissimum +
compound +  and simple +
mostly narrowly lanceolate;oblanceolate +
5-ribbed +, 3-ribbed +  and 2-ribbed +
muriculate +, papillate +  and smooth +
Pink rabbit-tobacco +
actinomorphic +
20–600 m +
greenish;concolor +
stipitate-glandular +  and tomentose +
papillate-roughened +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Dry, open slopes, sparsely wooded, sandy fields, dunes +
singly +  and aggregated +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
turbinate;short-cylindric +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
linear;lanceolate oblong or narrowly spatulate +
cauline +  and basal +
rarely lanceovate +  and lanceolate +
undulate +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
Flowering Jul–Sep. +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
conic;more or less columnar +
4 +  and 6 +
exalbuminous +
decumbent +  and procumbent +
stipitate-glandular +, glabrescent +  and gray-tomentose +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Compositae +
Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum +
Pseudognaphalium +
species +
120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br /> (150 cm1,500 mm <br />1.5 m <br />) +
50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +