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Gnaphalium beneolens Davidson=Gnaphalium canescens ssp. beneolensAsteraceae (Sunflower Family)NativeFragrant Everlasting |
Plant Characteristics: Rather
stout perennial, 4.5-10 dm. tall, persistently white-woolly throughout,
sometimes greenish-yellow, sweet scented; lvs. of the new shoots and basal lvs.
linear, narrowly acute, 4-10 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide; stem lvs. but little
reduced upward on the stems, evidently and often conspicuously decurrent; infl.
usually a long narrow panicle, to 3 dm. long, with ascending branches; heads
glomerate on the ultimate branches; heads 44-55 fld., pale yellow; invol.
campanulate, 5-6 mm. high, 4-5 seriate; phyllaries obtuse to acute, the inner
more narrow, the exposed tips papery and opaque.
Habitat: Dry places
below 5000 ft.; Coastal Sage Scrub, Chaparral; s. Calif. to Ore.; Santa Rosa,
Santa Cruz Ids. July-Nov.
Name: Greek, gnaphalon, a lock of wool, these plants floccose-woolly.
(Munz, Flora So.
Calif. 169). Latin, beneolens,
smelling agreeably. (Jaeger 35).
Latin, canescens, becoming
gray. (Jaeger 45).
General: Moderately
common in study area. This plant is
very similar to G. microcephalum and after the basal leaves have dropped the two
species are very difficult to distinguish from each other.
The decurrent leaves are not as conspicuous as the plant description
describes them to be. Photographed
on the Eastbluff Bench and on the North Star Flats.
(my comments). Over 100 species, widely distributed.
(Munz, Flora So. Calif. 169).
Considered to have horticultural potential, untested but worth pursuing.
(Hickman, Ed. 271).
Text Ref: Hickman, Ed.
271, 1328; Munz, Flora So. Calif. 170;
Roberts 11.
Photo Ref: Oct-Jan
87-88 # 15,16; Aug, Sept, Oct 88 # 5,6; Sept. 95 # 22.
Identity: by R. De Ruff, confirmed by F. Roberts.
First Found: May 1983.
Computer Ref: Plant Data 346
Have plant specimen.
Last edit 7/30/05.
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