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Photographer: Steve C. Garske
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Family Asteraceae
Gnaphalium macounii Greene
clammy cudweed, western cudweed
Gnaphalium: derived from Greek gnaphalon, "a lock of wool," describing these plants as floccose-wooly
macounii: for James Melville Macoun 1862-1920, son of John Macoun
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 12"-40" tall, fragrant forb; stems with glandular hairs but becoming woolly near the top |
| Flower: | head relatively large with no rays, disks with 60-100 white flowers; inflorescence with many heads in branched clusters; blooms July-Sept. |
| Fruit: | smooth, dry seed on fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | alternate, toothless, linear with the base extending down the stem |
| Habitat: | sun; dry; open woods, pastures, roadsides |
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