Gnaphalium sylvaticum
| Gnaphalium sylvaticum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Gnaphalieae |
| Genus: | Gnaphalium |
| Species: | G. sylvaticum |
| Binomial name | |
| Gnaphalium sylvaticum L. | |
Gnaphalium sylvaticum, commonly known as heath cudweed,[1] wood cudweed, golden motherwort, chafeweed, and owl's crown,[2] is a weedy plant found in the North Temperate Zone. It was first formally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.[3]
Description
It is a perennial herb with short runners.
The plant is 8 to 60 cm tall.
The leaves are lanceolate in shape, pointed, 2 to 8 cm long, with a single vein. They have no hair on top, but are whooly hairy below. The upper leaves become progressively shorter and narrower.
The flower heads are 6mm long. The bracts of the flower heads have a green centre, and chaffy brown edges. The florets are pale brown. The achenes are hairy with reddish pappus hairs.
If flowers from July until September.
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- ↑ "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (XLS) on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ↑ An illustrated flora of the northern United States: Canada and the British possessions from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic ocean westward to the 102d meridian, Volume 3, 1898, p. 403.
- ↑ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Plant Name Search Results" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
- ↑ Rose, Francis (1981). The Wild Flower Key. Frederick Warne & Co. pp. 377–380. ISBN 0-7232-2419-6.