Slender Cudweed, Northwestern Rabbit-tobacco
Pseudognaphalium thermale
Synonym: Gnaphalium canescens, Gnaphalium canescens ssp. thermale, Gnaphalium microcephalum, Gnaphalium microcephalum var. thermale, Gnaphalium thermale, Pseudognaphalium canescens ssp. thermale, Pseudognaphalium microcephalum
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The photo at left shows a close-up of the flower
heads of slender cudweed as seen along forest road #23 at the Mt. Adams viewpoint
about one-half mile south of road #8810..........August 6, 2005. The photo at right shows slender cudweed blooming along the Stagman Ridge Trail #12, Mount Adams Wilderness.....August 9, 2021.
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Slender cudweed as seen at left along the Stagman Ridge Trail #12, Mt. Adams Wilderness.......September 2, 2018.
The photo at right shows slender cudweed as seen along the Bird Lake Trail several hundred meters up from the trailhead at Bird Lake, Yakama Nation lands, Bird Creek Meadows.......October 1, 2020.
The photo above shows the overall form of slender
cudweed as seen along forest road #23 at the Mt. Adams viewpoint about one-half
mile south of road #8810.........August 6, 2005. The inflorescence
of this species is much more open than that of the similar cotton-batting
plant (Gnaphalium chilense).
The photo above shows a close-up of the basal
leaves of slender cudweed as seen along forest road #23 at the Mt. Adams viewpoint
about one-half mile south of road #8810.........August 6, 2005.
Paul Slichter