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|accepted_name=Diaperia candida
|accepted_authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) Bentham & Hooker f.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl.
|place=2: 298. 1873
|year=1873
}}
|common_names=Silver rabbit-tobacco
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Calymmandra candida
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Evax candida
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae;Diaperia;Diaperia candida
|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>[[Diaperia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Diaperia candida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 461
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>grayish silvery, 3–25 cm, densely sericeous. <b>Stems</b> mostly 1; branches proximal or none. <b>Leaves</b>: largest 10–18 × 2–3 mm; capitular leaves subtending glomerules only, or sometimes also hidden between and surpassed by heads. <b>Heads</b> proximal and distal, in spiciform or racemiform arrays, ± spheric, 1.5–2 mm, heights ± equal to diams. <b>Receptacles</b> ± spheric, 0.3–0.5 mm, heights ± equal to diams. <b>Pistillate</b> paleae scarcely imbricate, longest 0.9–1.3 mm. <b>Bisexual</b> paleae mostly 1–3, apices incurved, ± involute, gibbous. <b>Functionally</b> staminate florets usually 0. <b>Bisexual</b> florets 3–5; corollas protruding from heads, ± zygomorphic, 0.5–0.9 mm, glabrous, lobes unequal (1–2 enlarged). <b>Cypselae</b> rounded, ± terete, mostly 0.5–0.6 mm (bisexual slightly longer). <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting late Mar–early Jun.
|habitat=Open, dry, deep sandy soils, oak and pine woodlands, prairies, coastal areas, sometimes disturbed sites (fields, lawns, road beds)
|elevation=10–400 m
|distribution=Ark.;La.;Okla.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Diaperia candida</i> is the most restricted of the three species, occupying most of eastern Texas (including the coast) and extending to adjacent corners of southeastern Oklahoma, southwestern Arkansas, and northwestern Louisiana.</p>
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name=Diaperia candida
|author=
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) Bentham & Hooker f.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Evax candida
|basionyms=Calymmandra candida
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting late Mar–early Jun.
|habitat=Open, dry, deep sandy soils, oak and pine woodlands, prairies, coastal areas, sometimes disturbed sites (fields, lawns, road beds)
|elevation=10–400 m
|distribution=Ark.;La.;Okla.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Pl.
|publication year=1873
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae
|genus=Diaperia
|species=Diaperia candida
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