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Gnaphalium norvegicum

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Name

Identification
Gnaphalium sylvaticum L. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Gnaphalium norvegicum Gunnerus [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Smith, Sir James Edward,
Related name
  • Gnaphalium norvegicum
  • Gnaphalium sylvaticum
Common name
  • Norwegian Arctic-cudweed, Flora of North America Vol. 19
  • gnaphale de Norvège, Flora of North America Vol. 19

Flora

Entry for Omalotheca norvegica (Gunnerus) Schultz-Bipontinus & F. W. Schultz [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 19,
Names
Omalotheca norvegica (Gunnerus) Schultz-Bipontinus & F. W. Schultz [family COMPOSITAE], in F. W. Schultz, Arch. Fl., 311. 1861
Gnaphalium norvegicum Gunnerus [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. Norveg., 2: 105. 1772
Treatment Author(s)
Guy L. Nesom
Information
Plants 10–40 cm. Leaves basal and cauline, basal petiolate, blades 3-nerved, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–12 cm × 6–30 mm, distal cauline slightly smaller, oblanceolate, faces concolor or weakly bicolor, grayish, thinly woolly. Heads (10–60+) in compact, spiciform (leafy-bracteate, sometimes interrupted) arrays (1.5–14 cm, occupying 1/8–1/4 of plant heights, primary axes usually not visible). Involucres cylindro-campanulate, 5.5–6 mm. Phyllaries brown to reddish brown with narrow pale center and base. Cypselae cylindric, minutely strigose; pappus bristles basally connate, falling together. 2n = 56.
Phenology
jul-aug (summer), sep (fall)
Altitude range
400–1300 m;
Distribution
GreenlandEurope.Canada Nfld. and Labr.Canada Que.

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