. 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. Botany; Botany. 9. Gnaphalium purpureum L. Purplish Cudweed. Fig. 4414. Gnaphalium purpureum L. Sp. 854. 1753. Annual or biennial, simple and erect or branch- ed from the base and the branches ascending, 2'-2° high. Leaves spatulate, or the uppermost linear, mostly obtuse, mucronulate, woolly beneath, usu- ally green and glabrous or nearly so above when old, sessile, or t
. 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. Botany; Botany. 9. Gnaphalium purpureum L. Purplish Cudweed. Fig. 4414. Gnaphalium purpureum L. Sp. 854. 1753. Annual or biennial, simple and erect or branch- ed from the base and the branches ascending, 2'-2° high. Leaves spatulate, or the uppermost linear, mostly obtuse, mucronulate, woolly beneath, usu- ally green and glabrous or nearly so above when old, sessile, or the lowest narrowed into petioles, i'-2' long, 2"-6" wide; heads 2"-2h" high in a terminal, sometimes leafy, often interrupted spike, or the lowest ones distant and axillary; bracts of the involucre yellowish brown or purplish, lan- ceolate-oblong, acute or acutish, the outer woolly at the base; pappus-bristles united below; achenes roughish. In dry sandy soil, eastern Maine to Florida, Penn- sylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas and Texas. Bermuda ; Jamaica; Mexico. Far western plants for- merely referred to this species prove to be distinct. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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