Stylocline gnaphaloides
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Stylocline |
| Species: | S. gnaphaloides
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Stylocline gnaphaloides (often misspelled S. gnaphalioides)[1][2] is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names mountain neststraw[3] and everlasting neststraw.
Distribution
The plant is native to southern California and Arizona in the southwestern United States; and to Baja California and Sonora in northwestern Mexico. It can be found in many types of habitat, becoming common in some areas.
Description
Stylocline gnaphaloides is a small annual herb growing at ground level and reaching just a few centimeters in length. It is usually coated in white hairs, often woolly. The small, blunt leaves are alternately arranged, each up to 1.4 centimeters long.
The
flower heads each a few millimeters in diameter. The head has 2 to 4 white-haired phyllaries
and tiny woolly white flowers.
References
- ^ Jepson Manual
- ^ Flora of North America
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Stylocline gnaphalioides". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
External links
Media related to Stylocline gnaphaloides at Wikimedia Commons