RABBIT-TOBACCO
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Diaperia prolifera (Nutt. ex DC.) Nutt. var. prolifera
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| Comanche County, Kansas |
| Winter annual or annual |
| Height: 1-6 inches |
| Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May |
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| Also Called: | | Big-head rabbit-tobacco, big-head evax, pygmy cudweed. | | Stems: | | Erect, simple or branching from base, very leafy, densely white to gray woolly. | | Leaves: | | Rosette leaves spatulate, 1/8 to 1/4 inch long, soon disappearing; stem leaves alternate, ascending or appressed, spoon-shaped to narrowly oblanceolate, 1/8 to 3/5 inch long, less than 1/6 inch wide, densely white to gray woolly; margins entire; tips blunt. | | Inflorescences: | | Heads inconspicuous, oblong or spindle-shaped, sessile in small, compact clusters; clusters densely white to gray woolly, terminal on stem and branches. | | Flowers: | | True involucre absent; ultimate cluster of heads subtended by leaves 1/4 to 1/2 inch long; receptacle slightly raised to somewhat conical; chaff appearing as bracts exceeding heads in length, conspicuously protruding; ray florets absent; outer florets pistillate, fertile, corolla minute, tubular; central florets few, corolla 4-toothed. | | Fruits: | | Achenes, tiny, oblong-elliptic, compressed, yellowish-brown; pappus absent. | | Habitat: | | Prairies, pastures, and stream valleys; dry, clayey or rocky, limestone soils. | | Distribution: | | West 1/2 of Kansas. |
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