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Photographer: D. Sky Feller
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Family Asteraceae
Gnaphalium saxicola Fassett
cliff cudweed, rabbit-tobacco
Gnaphalium: derived from Greek gnaphalon, "a lock of wool," describing these plants as floccose-wooly
saxicola: growing among rocks
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| Status: | Threatened |
| Plant: | erect to drooping, annual, 10" tall, fragrant forb; stems with white, woolly hairs |
| Flower: | head white, 1/4" wide, no rays, disks with 75-125 flowers; inflorescence with many heads in branched, often flattish clusters; blooms July-Oct. |
| Fruit: | smooth, dry seed on fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | alternate, toothless, mostly stalkless, linear, bases not extending down the stem, whitish below and greenish above |
| Habitat: | moist to dry; sandstone cliffs, ravines |
| Notes: | very similar to G. obtusifolium var. obtusifolium but smaller, not as stiff, and with wider, less hairy leaves |
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