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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Asteraceae
Gnaphalium uliginosum L.
low cudweed, marsh cudweed
Gnaphalium: derived from Greek gnaphalon, "a lock of wool," describing these plants as floccose-wooly
uliginosum: in marshes
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 2"-12" tall, branched forb; stems white-woolly |
| Flower: | head tiny, brownish, no rays; inflorescence with heads in small, tight clusters at the top of the stem and from the upper leaf axils; blooms June-Sept. |
| Fruit: | dry seed on fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | alternate, toothless, mostly stalkless, linear, both sides woolly |
| Habitat: | wet to dry; streambanks, disturbed sites |
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