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Pseudognaphalium
Family: Asteraceae
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Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 19, 20 and 21)
Annuals, biennials, or perennials (sometimes aromatic), (4-)15-150(-200) cm (usually taprooted, sometimes fibrous-rooted). Stems 1+, usually erect, sometimes decumbent to procumbent (± woolly-tomentose, sometimes stipitate- or sessile-glandular). Leaves basal and cauline or mostly cauline; alternate; usually sessile; blades mostly narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, bases often clasping and/or decurrent, margins entire, faces bicolor or concolor, abaxial white to gray and tomentose to velutinous, adaxial usually greenish and glabrous or glabrescent, sometimes grayish and loosely arachnose (sometimes stipitate- or sessile-glandular). Heads disciform, usually in glomerules in corymbiform or paniculiform arrays, sometimes in terminal clusters. Involucres mostly campanulate to cylindric, (3-)4-7 mm. Phyllaries in (2-)3-7(-10) series, whitish, rosy, tawny, or brownish (opaque or hyaline, dull or shiny; stereomes usually green, usually sessile-glandular distally), unequal, usually chartaceous toward tips. Receptacles flat, smooth, epaleate. Peripheral (pistillate) florets (15-)25-250+ (more numerous than bisexual); corollas yellowish. Inner (bisexual) florets (1-)5-20(-40+); corollas yellowish (red-tipped in P. luteoalbum). Cypselae oblong-compressed or cylindric, faces usually smooth, sometimes papillate-roughened and/or with 4-6 longitudinal ridges, usually glabrous (papilliform hairs in P. luteoalbum); pappi readily falling, of 10-12 distinct (coherent basally in Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum and P. stramineum), barbellate bristles in 1 series. x = 7. Fifteen of the species treated here occur also in Mexico; those that do not are Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, P. saxicola, P. micradenium, and P. helleri (eastern United States and adjacent Canada), and P. ramosissimum and P. thermale (western United States and adjacent Canada).

Basal and proximal leaves of Pseudognaphalium species often wither before plants reach flowering. In the key and descriptions here, references to leaves are to cauline leaves of plants at flowering unless otherwise indicated.

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Pseudognaphalium adnatum
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Pseudognaphalium affine
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Pseudognaphalium alatocaule
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Pseudognaphalium albescens
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Pseudognaphalium altimiranum
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Pseudognaphalium arizonicum
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Pseudognaphalium attenuatum
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Pseudognaphalium austrotexanum
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Pseudognaphalium beneolens
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Pseudognaphalium biolettii
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Pseudognaphalium bourgovii
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Pseudognaphalium brachyphyllum
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Pseudognaphalium brachypterum
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Pseudognaphalium californicum
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Pseudognaphalium canescens
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Pseudognaphalium chartaceum
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Pseudognaphalium cheiranthifolium
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Pseudognaphalium conoideum
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Pseudognaphalium crenatum
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Pseudognaphalium cymatoides
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Pseudognaphalium dombeyanum
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Pseudognaphalium domingense
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Pseudognaphalium eggersii
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Pseudognaphalium ehrenbergianum
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Pseudognaphalium elegans
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Pseudognaphalium gaudichaudianum
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Pseudognaphalium gayanum
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Pseudognaphalium greenmannii
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Pseudognaphalium helleri
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Pseudognaphalium hintoniorum
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Pseudognaphalium hypoleucum
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Pseudognaphalium inornatum
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Pseudognaphalium jaliscense
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Pseudognaphalium jujuyense
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Pseudognaphalium lanuginosum
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Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum
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Pseudognaphalium leucopeplum
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Pseudognaphalium leucostegium
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Pseudognaphalium liebmannii
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Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum
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Pseudognaphalium macounii
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Pseudognaphalium micradenium
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Pseudognaphalium microcephalum
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Pseudognaphalium monticola
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Pseudognaphalium nubicola
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Pseudognaphalium oaxacanum
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Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium
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Pseudognaphalium oligandrum
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Pseudognaphalium pacificum
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Pseudognaphalium pringlei
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