Pseudognaphalium californicum
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Kingdom: | Plantae
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(unranked): | Angiosperms
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Species: | P. californicum
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Binomial name | |
Pseudognaphalium californicum (DC.)
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Gnaphalium californicum (DC.) |
Pseudognaphalium californicum (syn. Gnaphalium californicum) is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by several common names, including ladies' tobacco, California rabbit tobacco, California cudweed, and California everlasting.
The plant is native to the west coast of North America from Washington to Baja California, where it is a member of the flora of many habitats, including chaparral.
Description[]
![California everlasting (34018683705).jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/California_everlasting_%2834018683705%29.jpg/220px-California_everlasting_%2834018683705%29.jpg)
Pseudognaphalium californicum is an annual or biennial herb growing a branching stem reaching 20 to 80 centimeters in height. Stem branches bear linear to somewhat lance-shaped leaves 2 to 20 centimeters long. The green herbage is glandular and scented. The leaves produce a distinctive citrus aroma.
The inflorescence is a wide cluster of flower heads, each enveloped in an involucre of rows of bright white phyllaries.
Classification[]
Classification is disputed between the genera Pseudognaphalium and Gnaphalium.
Images[]
California rabbit tobacco
Also California cudweed
Alternate varietal
Macro view of bisexual outer flowers
External links[]
- Jepson Manual Treatment: Pseudognaphalium californicum
- USDA Plants Profile: Pseudognaphalium californicum
- Flora of North America
- "Pseudognaphalium californicum". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Pseudognaphalium californicum — U.C. Photo gallery
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- Pseudognaphalium
- Flora of California
- Flora of Baja California
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of the Cascade Range
- Flora of the Klamath Mountains
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Natural history of the Channel Islands of California
- Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
- Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Plants described in 1838
- Gnaphalieae stubs