rabbit-tobacco
(Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium)
Conservation • Description • Habitat • Biology • Use • Distribution • Taxonomy
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| IUCN Red List | not listed |
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| NatureServe | N5 - Secure SNR - Unranked |
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| Minnesota | not listed |
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Description |
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Rabbit-tobacco is a 6″ to 32″ tall, erect, annual or winter annual forb that rises usually on a single stem from a taproot and fibrous roots. Winter annual individuals germinate in the late summer or fall, form a rosette of basal leaves which persist through the winter, then send up a stem and complete their life cycle the following year. The stem is erect, round, unbranched below the middle, and with a few short, ascending branches near the top. Early in the season it is densely covered with short, white, felt-like hairs. Late in the season this white covering of hairs becomes patchy revealing the light green stem beneath. The leaves are alternate, numerous, stalkless, linear or narrowly lance-shaped, 1″ to 4″ long, and 1 ⁄16″ to ⅜″ wide, becoming gradually smaller as they as ascend the stem. The base of the leaf does not clasp the stem and it does not extend downward along the stem. The upper surface is green with sparse stalked glands and sometimes sparse woolly hairs along the midvein. The lower surface is white due to a dense covering of white, woolly hairs. There is a single, prominent, central vein. The margins are untoothed and wavy. The inflorescence is a broad, branched, dome-shaped corymb with roundish clusters of 1 to 5 flower heads in at the tops of the stems. The flower heads are narrowly egg-shaped, 3 ⁄16″ to ¼″ long, and about half as wide. The involucre is composed of 4 to 6 overlapping series of white, egg-shaped bracts. Each flower head has 38 to 96 yellowish female flowers surrounding 4 to 8 yellowish male flowers. |
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Height |
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6″ to 32″ |
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Flower Color |
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White |
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Similar Species |
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Macoun’s cudweed (Pseudognaphalium macounii) leaf bases extend downward along the stem, similar to the sheath of a blade of grass. Pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) has broad flower heads. Pussytoes (Antennaria spp.) are much shorter plants. |
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Habitat |
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Dry to moderate moisture. Upland prairies, dry forest openings, bluff tops, savannas, stream and river banks, railroads, fields, roadsides, disturbed sites. Full sun. Sandy soil. |
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Biology |
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Flowering |
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July to October |
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Taxonomy |
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| Kingdom | Plantae (green algae and land plants) | ||
| Subkingdom | Viridiplantae (green plants) | ||
| Infrakingdom | Streptophyta (land plants and green algae) | ||
| Superdivision | Embryophyta (land plants) | ||
| Division | Tracheophyta (vascular plants) | ||
| Subdivision | Spermatophytina (seed plants) | ||
| Class | Magnoliopsida (flowering plants) | ||
| Superorder | Asteranae | ||
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Asterales (sunflowers, bellflowers, fanflowers, and allies) | ||
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Asteraceae (sunflowers, daisies, asters, and allies) | ||
| Subfamily | Asteroideae | ||
| Supertribe | Asterodae | ||
| Tribe | Gnaphalieae (paper daisies) | ||
| Genus | Pseudognaphalium (rabbit-tobacco) | ||
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Synonyms |
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Gnaphalium obtusifolium Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. obtusifolium Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. praecox Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium ssp. obtusifolium Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium ssp. praecox |
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catfoot eastern rabbit-tobacco fragrant cudweed fragrant everlasting old-field-balsam old-field cudweed rabbit-tobacco rabbittobacco sweet everlasting |
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Glossary
Bract
Modified leaf at the base of a flower stalk, flower cluster, or inflorescence.
Corymb
A flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the stalked flowers grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same horizontal plane. The outer flowers open first.
Involucre
A whorl of bracts beneath or surrounding a flower or flower cluster.
Linear
Long, straight, and narrow, with more or less parallel sides, like a blade of grass.
Winter annual
A plant whose seeds germinate in late summer or fall, flowers and fruits in the spring or summer of the following year, and then dies.
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| Rabbit Tobacco (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium) Bill Keim |
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| Sweet Everlasting adamitshelanu |
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About
Published on Nov 14, 2012 Sweet Everlasting Uncle Steve noticed a lovely plant growing near Crabtree Creek on Ebenezer Church Road in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has identified it as: Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium previously named Gnaphalium obtusifolium and is called: sweet everlasting rabbit tobacco Date: 17 OCTOBER 2012 [vado sansa canon avidemux audacity inkscape] |
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| Rabbit Tobacco Darryl Patton |
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Uploaded on Nov 8, 2010 Rabbit Tobacco is more traditionally known as a smoke for lung and sinus issues. It is actually a powerful anti-viral which needs to be in every home herbal medicine chest. |
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| Mystery Plant "Rabbit Tobacco" SouthCarolinaETV |
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Published on Nov 13, 2013 Dr. John Nelson from The USC AC Moore Herbarium and Clemson Extension Agent Vicky Bertagnolli take a look at this mystery plant commonly called "rabbit tobacco." |
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| Sweet Everlasting (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium) colong7034 |
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Published on Sep 15, 2013 Butterflies nectaring on Sweet Everlasting (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium). Although the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail seems to be sleeping! Transylvania County, NC. Shot September 2013 |
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| Rabbit Tobacco Waterloo, Alabama Tommy Price |
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Published on Oct 12, 2012 This is the Rabbit Tobacco used by Native Americans as a tea to dispell viruses and smoked to break p fleam in the lungs andbronchial tubes and used in ceremonies as a blessing. |
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