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|accepted_name=Euchiton sphaericus
|accepted_authority=(Willdenow) Anderberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Opera Bot.
|place=104: 167. 1991
|year=1991
}}
|common_names=Star-cudweed
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Gnaphalium sphaericum
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=species
|publication_title=Enum. Pl.,
|publication_place=867. 1809
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae;Euchiton;Euchiton sphaericus
|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>[[Euchiton]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euchiton sphaericus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 441
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 5–80 cm; taprooted; stolons absent. <b>Aerial</b> stems simple or branched from bases (sometimes branched from leaf axils), thinly and persistently white-tomentose. <b>Leaves</b>: basal and proximal cauline withering before flowering (blades 1-nerved, oblanceolate to spatulate); cauline 8–12, blades linear, 2–4 cm × 1–2 mm (largest at midstem), bases not clasping, margins revolute, sometimes undulate, abaxial faces white, tomentose, adaxial faces green, glabrous. <b>Bracts</b> subtending heads 4–8, 10–30 mm, surpassing heads. <b>Heads</b> in globose clusters 10–20 mm diam. <b>Involucres</b> 3.5–4 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> brownish to tawny, sometimes purple-tinged (shiny), elliptic-lanceolate, apices acute. <b>Pistillate</b> florets 16–26. <b>Bisexual</b> florets 1. <b>Pappus</b> bristles distinct or basally coherent (falling in groups). <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Grassy open places in wooded areas, disturbed soils, recent clearings
|elevation=30–700 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;se Asia;Pacific Islands (Hawaii;New Guinea;New Zealand);Australia.
|discussion=<p>In California and Hawaii, plants of <i>Euchiton sphaericus</i> have been identified as <i>Gnaphalium</i> japonicum; annual duration, slender taproots, non-clasping leaf bases, and single bisexual florets establish the correct identity of <i>E. sphaericus</i>. It “varies enormously in length, position and degree of branching, and the branches may be either vegetative or flower-bearing” (D. G. Drury 1972).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Euchiton sphaericus
|authority=(Willdenow) Anderberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Gnaphalium sphaericum
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Grassy open places in wooded areas, disturbed soils, recent clearings
|elevation=30–700 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;se Asia;Pacific Islands (Hawaii;New Guinea;New Zealand);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Opera Bot.
|publication year=1991
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_731.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae
|genus=Euchiton
|species=Euchiton sphaericus
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