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
[edit]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
[edit]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 inflorescence bears spherical flower heads each a few millimeters in diameter. The head has 2 to 4 white-haired phyllaries and tiny woolly white flowers.
References
[edit]- ^ Jepson Manual
- ^ Flora of North America
- ^ NRCS. "Stylocline gnaphalioides". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 4 December 2015.
External links
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Media related to Stylocline gnaphaloides at Wikimedia Commons
- Stylocline
- Flora of Baja California
- Flora of California
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Natural history of the Central Valley (California)
- Natural history of the Channel Islands of California
- Natural history of the Colorado Desert
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
- Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Taxa named by Thomas Nuttall
- Gnaphalieae stubs