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Pseudognaphalium stramineum
Also called Cotton Batting Plant, Cotton Cudweed, Cotton Batting Cudweed, Annual Cudweed, Cottonbatting Cudweed
Pseudognaphalium stramineum, also known as cotton-batting-plant, is an annual or biennial species of plant in the sunflower family. It is known for being covered in dense, loose hairs on its leaves and stems.
Pseudognaphalium stramineum grows throughout western North America from British Columbia to Central America. In Canada it only grows in British Columbia. In the United States it grows in every state from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and is particularly widespread in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington. East of the Rockies it is found in some of Texas, two counties in Oklahoma, and is reported from Nebraska without any location information. On the east coast it grows in just New York, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. In Mexico it is also quite widespread. In the northwest it grow in all four states, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa. In the northeast it grows in ten of the eleven states, only being absent from Tamaulipas. In central Mexico it grows in the State of Mexico, Mexico City, Morelos, Puebla, and Tlaxcala. In the southwest it remains common, only being absent from Colima. It also grows in the state of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico. To the southeast it becomes less common, being found in just Chiapas.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pseudognaphalium stramineum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
