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Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium (Linnaeus) Hilliard & Burtt. Common name: Eastern Rabbit-tobacco, Fragrant Rabbit-tobacco, Cat's-foot. Phenology: Aug-Nov. Habitat: Prairies, openings, woodlands, coastal dunes, sandy pinelands, disturbed areas. Distribution: NB west to ON, south to s. FL and c. and s. TX.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: See Nesom (2024a) for details about a necessary retypification to maintain current usage of the name Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium.

Synonymy : = Fl7, FNA19, Il, Mi, NcTx, NE, NY, Pa, Tn, Va, WH3, Freire et al (2022), Nesom (2001a); = Gnaphalium obtusifolium L. – GrPl, Oh3, RAB, S, SE1, W, WV; = Gnaphalium obtusifolium L. var. obtusifolium – C, G, Tat, Arriagada (1998); > Gnaphalium obtusifolium L. var. obtusifolium – F; > Gnaphalium obtusifolium L. var. praecox Fernald – F; ? Gnaphalium polycephalum Michx.; > Gnaphalium saxicola Fassett – F; > Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium (L.) Hilliard & Burtt ssp. obtusifolium – K3, K4; > Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium (L.) Hilliard & Burtt ssp. praecox (Fernald) Kartesz – K3, K4

Links to other floras: = Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium - FNA19

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect annual/biennial of openings, woodlands, coastal dunes, sandy pinelands and disturbed areas.

Stems: Stems unbranched, woolly-hairy (may become smooth at base).

Leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile, linear-oblong, 1-4 in. long, wavy-margined, woolly and white beneath, smooth and green (or slightly hairy) above, fragrant; first-year rosette leaves spatula-shaped.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Compound flowers (heads) in clumps of 1-5 in branching, terminal cluster; heads about 1/4 in. wide and pointed or flat-topped, consisting of white (or yellow-tinged), tubular disk florets (no ray florets) tightly enclosed by several series of brownish-white, papery and woolly bracts.

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Height: 8-36 in.

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description: Erect annual/biennial of openings, woodlands, coastal dunes, sandy pinelands and disturbed areas.

stems: Stems unbranched, woolly-hairy (may become smooth at base).

leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile, linear-oblong, 1-4 in. long, wavy-margined, woolly and white beneath, smooth and green (or slightly hairy) above, fragrant; first-year rosette leaves spatula-shaped.

inflorescence:

flowers: Compound flowers (heads) in clumps of 1-5 in branching, terminal cluster; heads about 1/4 in. wide and pointed or flat-topped, consisting of white (or yellow-tinged), tubular disk florets (no ray florets) tightly enclosed by several series of brownish-white, papery and woolly bracts.

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native range: eastern North America