Filago californica Nutt.:
United States (North America)

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Long known as Filago californica, Logfia filaginoides is relatively common in the Californian Floristic Province south of Humboldt County, California, to northern Baja California Sur (including Channel Islands, and Angel de la Guarda, Cedros, and Guadalupe islands in Mexico). Eastward, it is scattered to southwestern Utah and western Texas. An 1893 gathering labeled "Blue Lakes, Snake Plains" is of uncertain origin.

Plants 1–30(–55) cm. Stems 1(–7), typically ± erect; branches leafy between proximal forks, remaining grayish to greenish, arachnoid-sericeous. Leaves mostly oblanceolate, largest 10–15(–20) × 2–3(–4) mm, pliant; longest capitular leaves 1–2(–3) times head heights, mostly acute. Heads mostly in glomerules of 2–4 in racemiform, paniculiform, or distally dichasiiform arrays, ± pyriform, largest 3.5–4.5 × 2.5–3 mm. Phyllaries 0, vestigial, or 1–4, unequal, ± like paleae. Receptacles ± fungiform, mostly 0.6–0.7 mm, heights 0.7–0.9 times diams. Pistillate paleae (except innermost) 7–13 in 2(–3) series, spirally ranked, loosely saccate, incurved 20–60°, somewhat gibbous, not galeate, longest 2.7–3.3 mm, distal 15–30% of lengths glabrous abaxially; bodies ± cartilaginous, ± terete; wings prominent. Innermost paleae ± 5, spreading in 1 series, pistillate. Pistillate florets: outer 7–13 epappose, inner 14–35 pappose. Bisexual florets 4–7; corollas 1.9–2.8 mm, lobes mostly 4, bright reddish to purplish. Cypselae: outer nearly straight, ± erect, compressed, mostly 0.9–1 mm; inner mostly papillate; pappi of 17–23+ bristles falling in complete or partial rings, 1.9–3 mm. 2n = 28.

Gnaphalium filaginoides Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechey Voy., 359. 1839; Filago californica Nuttall; Logfia californica (Nuttall) Holub; Oglifa californica (Nuttall) Rydberg

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure