View source for Gamochaeta argyrinea

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|accepted_name=Gamochaeta argyrinea
|accepted_authority=G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=21: 718, figs. 1-4. 2004
|year=2004
}}
|common_names=Silvery cudweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae;Gamochaeta;Gamochaeta argyrinea
|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 argyrinea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 432, 436
|treatment_page=page 435
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>(winter annuals), 12–40 cm; usually fibrous-rooted, rarely taprooted. <b>Stems</b> decumbent-ascending, closely white-pannose (hairs usually individually evident, seldom forming clothlike induments). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, basal present through flowering, blades oblanceolate to oblanceolate-oblong or oblanceolate-obovate, 1.5–5(–8) cm × 5–12(–18) mm (gradually smaller distally), faces bicolor, abaxial closely white-pannose, adaxial sparsely arachnose (evident at 10×). <b>Heads</b> initially in continuous, cylindric arrays 1.5–5 cm × 10–12 mm (pressed), later sometimes interrupted, 5–18 cm × 10–12 mm (pressed; producing axillary glomerules from proximal nodes). <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 3–3.5 mm, bases sparsely arachnose. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–6 series, outer (tawny-transparent, never dark brown) ovate to ovate-lanceolate, lengths 1/3–4/5 inner, apices acute to acuminate, inner elliptic-oblong to oblong, laminae often purplish tinged (around stereome/lamina junction, otherwise hyaline and slightly brownish), apices truncate-rounded, apiculate (flexing slightly outward in fruit). <b>Florets</b>: bisexual 4–5(–6); all corollas purple- to yellow-brown distally. <b>Cypselae</b> (tan) 0.5–0.6 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun(–Oct).
|habitat=Roadsides, fields, lawns, open woods, sand or clayey soils, open, disturbed areas
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;West Indies.
|discussion=<p><i>Gamochaeta argyrinea</i> has been confused with <i>G. purpurea</i>, which also occurs across the coastal states of eastern United States (G. L. Nesom 2004).</p>
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name=Gamochaeta argyrinea
|author=
|authority=G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun(–Oct).
|habitat=Roadsides, fields, lawns, open woods, sand or clayey soils, open, disturbed areas
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=2004
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_716.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae
|genus=Gamochaeta
|species=Gamochaeta argyrinea
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