Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium sweet everlasting
Synonyms:
Gnaphalium obtusifolium
Like other everlastings, sweet everlasting has small, spherical flower heads clustered at the tops of their pale, woolly stems. Sweet everlasting is not as showy as the pearly everlasting, because the bracts that enclose the male flowers at the center do not expand until the plant goes to seed. This species prefers dry soil.
Habitat & Range
Common in dry pastures, old fields, shale barrens, and along roadsides.
Present throughout the state.
Wetland code: Not classified
Phenology
Flowers August to November.
Characteristics
Leaves all cauline, lance-linear, white-wooly beneath, and glabrous to slightly wooly above
Plant Codes
S-rank: No rank
G-rank: G5 (Secure)
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium sweet everlasting
Plants in flower
Whole plant
Plant form
Close-Up of flowering heads
Plant in flower
Fruits
Fruits
Plant Life-Form
annual or biennial forb
Common Names
sweet everlasting
