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|accepted_name=Gamochaeta chionesthes
|accepted_authority=G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=21: 725, figs. 2-4. 2004
|year=2004
}}
|common_names=White-cloaked cudweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae;Gamochaeta;Gamochaeta chionesthes
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gamochaeta]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gamochaeta chionesthes]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 432
|treatment_page=page 434
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>(winter annuals), 1–45 cm; fibrous-rooted. <b>Stems</b> erect to decumbent-ascending, not pannose (indument whitish, like closely appressed, polished cloth, hairs usually not individually evident). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, basal present through flowering, blades oblanceolate to oblanceolate-spatulate, 2–6(–7) cm × 5–13 mm (gradually smaller, becoming linear bracts distally), faces bicolor, abaxial closely white-pannose, adaxial sparsely arachnose (light green, hairs persistent, closely appressed, nearly microscopic). <b>Heads</b> initially in ± continuous, cylindric arrays 3–5(–7) cm × 10–12 mm (pressed), later sometimes interrupted and 7–20 cm (producing axillary glomerules from proximal nodes). <b>Involucres</b> cylindro-campanulate, 3.5–4 mm, bases sparsely arachnose. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–5 series, outer ovate, lengths 1/3 inner, apices acute to acute-acuminate, inner oblong-lanceolate, laminae (± striate) purplish (at stereome and on distal margins or not at all), apices acute to acute-acuminate (not apiculate, slightly flaring outward in fruit). <b>Florets</b>: bisexual 2–4; all corollas brownish yellow to purple distally (sometimes purple only on adaxial faces of lobes in bisexual corollas). <b>Cypselae</b> (purple) 0.5–0.6 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)Apr–May(–Jun).
|habitat=Disturbed, open sites, roadsides, banks, woods edges and clearings, fields, flood plains, pastures, sandy, loamy, and clay soils
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.
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name=Gamochaeta chionesthes
|author=
|authority=G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)Apr–May(–Jun).
|habitat=Disturbed, open sites, roadsides, banks, woods edges and clearings, fields, flood plains, pastures, sandy, loamy, and clay soils
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=2004
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae
|genus=Gamochaeta
|species=Gamochaeta chionesthes
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