The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres
Synonym: genus Gnaphalium
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Gnaphalium is a genus of plants commonly called cudweeds belonging to the family Asteraceae. There are about 120 members of the genus mostly found in temperate regions although some are found on tropical mountains or in the sub-tropical regions of the world.
Cudweeds are important foodplants for American Painted Lady caterpillars.
Species include
- Gnaphalium affine
- Gnaphalium californicum - California everlasting
- Gnaphalium exilifolium - slender cudweed
- Gnaphalium hypoleucum
- Gnaphalium indicum
- Gnaphalium japonicum
- Gnaphalium keriense
- Gnaphalium luteoalbum - Jersey Cudweed
- Gnaphalium norvegicum - Highland Cudweed[1]
- Gnaphalium palustre - western marsh cudweed
- Gnaphalium polycaulon - manystem cudweed
- Gnaphalium polycephalum - white balsam
- Gnaphalium uliginosum - marsh cudweed
- Gnaphalium sandwicensium - ʻena ʻena, Hawaii
- Gnaphalium supinum - Dwarf cudweed
- Gnaphalium sylvaticum - wood cudweed
The well-known and widespread Gnaphalium luteoalbum (Jersey cudweed) is now placed in Helichrysum as Helichrysum luteoalbum.
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References
- ^ Rose, Francis (1981). The Wild Flower Key. Frederick Warne & Co. pp. 377-380. ISBN 0-7232-2419-6.
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