Photo Courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
Botanical name: | Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium |
Common name: | cudweed , sweet everlasting |
Group: | dicot |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Growth type: | forb/herb |
Duration: | perennial |
Origin: | native |
Plant height: | 1 - 3' |
Foliage: | alternate, leaves entire, stems and underside of leaves white-woolly, not clasping the stem |
Flower: | flowerhead in branching cluster |
Flowering time: | bloom and fruit mid August to October |
Habitat: | dry, open sandy ground of shaded woods edges, fields, roadsides (Hough) |
Range in New Jersey: | statewide |
Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
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