Jersey Cudweed
Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum
Summary 2
Helichrysum luteoalbum, commonly known as Jersey Cudweed or Weedy Cudweed, is a cosmopolitan weed.
Description 3
Annuals, 15–40 cm; taprooted or fibrous-rooted. Stems loosely white-tomentose, not glandular. Leaf blades (crowded, internodes 1–5, sometimes to 10 mm) narrowly obovate to subspatulate, 1–3(–6) cm × 2–8 mm (distal smaller, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong or linear), bases subclasping, usually decurrent 1–2 mm, margins weakly revolute, faces mostly concolor to weakly bicolor, abaxial gray-tomentose, adaxial usually gray-tomentose, sometimes glabrescent, neither glandular. Heads in terminal glomerules (1–2 cm diam.). Involucres broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, silvery gray to yellowish (hyaline), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous. Pistillate florets 135–160. Bisexual florets 5–10 (corollas red-tipped). Cypselae not evidently ridged (conspicuously dotted with whitish, papilliform hairs; pappus bristles loosely coherent basally, released in clusters or easily fragmented rings). 2n = 14, 16, 28.
Habitat 4
Weed of canal banks, moist ground near springs.
Distribution 5
Distribution: Cosmopolitan, widely distributed in Europe, S W and Central Asia, Pakistan, India, China, N America and Australia.
Flowers and fruiting 6
Cold and early summer seasons.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Wikimedia Commons, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Pseudognaphalium02.jpg
- Adapted by Chandan Pandey from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudognaphalium_luteoalbum
- (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4949887
- (c) Bibliotheca Alexandrina, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/22633102
- (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4947691
- (c) Chandan Pandey, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
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