Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum
(A. Gray) Anderb.
White cudweed, White rabbit tobacco
Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum is a perennial herb that is native to California, and also found elsewhere in western North America.
California Rare Plant Rank:
2B.2 (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA; common elsewhere)
Bloom Period
one or more occurrenceswithin a 7.5-minute quadrangle
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Coastal Sage Scrub, Chaparral
[biokic3.rc.asu.edu] Similarity to Other Species: Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum is similar to P. viscosum, which has shiny, hyaline, ovate-lanceolate phyllaries, 200-250 pistillate florets, (13-)16-29 bisexual florets, and papillate-roughened cypselae. Some plants of P. leucocephalum also appear to approach P. biolettii in general appearance, and it is possible that some of them may represent hybrids. Plants of P. biolettii differ from P. leucocephalum in their typically eglandular stems, broader, basally ampliate, clasping, more widely spaced, and less densely glandular leaves, and thinner, shiny phyllaries.
