cottonbatting plant

Pseudognaphalium stramineum

Member of rabbit-tobaccos (genus Pseudognaphalium)
paper daisies (tribe Gnaphalieae)
sunflower family (family Asteraceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)

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• stem not glandular, loosely to densely tomentose
• leaves ± crowded
• leaf base ± clasping, generally not decurrent
• leaf faces loosely persistently gray-tomentose, not glandular
• leaf flat or margin slightly curled under
• inflorescence dense, 1–2 cm diam or ± cyme-like
• peripheral corolla evenly yellow [?]
• common

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Chris’s observations: none

Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora