Gnaphalium palustre - Citizendia

Gnaphalium palustre

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Gnaphalium
Species:	G. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its The Asterales are an order of Dicotyledonous Flowering plants which include the composite family Asteraceae ( Sunflowers daisies The family Asteraceae or Compositae (known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family) is the largest family of Flowering Gnaphalium is a Genus of plants commonly called cudweeds belonging to the family Asteraceae. palustre

Binomial name

Gnaphalium palustre
Nutt.

Synonyms

Filaginella palustris

Gnaphalium palustre is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name western marsh cudweed. Thomas Nuttall ( January 5, 1786 - September 10, 1859) was an English botanist and Zoologist, who lived In Scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different Scientific names used for a single Taxon. The family Asteraceae or Compositae (known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family) is the largest family of Flowering It is native to much of western North America, where it is common in many habitats. This is an annual herb growing erect stems which may be short or up to about 30 centimeters tall. The stems and foliage are nearly white due to their coating of woolly hairs. The leaves are small and lance-shaped to scoop-shaped. The inflorescence holds a cluster of flower heads in a nest of woolly fibers. An inflorescence is a group or cluster of Flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main Branch or a complicated arrangement of branches Each head has brownish to pale yellowish phyllaries surrounding a center of many tiny flowers. In Botany, a bract is a modified or specialized Leaf. Bracts are ordinarily associated with reproductive structures (subtending Flowers Inflorescence

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