Biology:Omalotheca norvegica

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Omalotheca norvegica
Gnaphalium norvegicum a1.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Omalotheca
Species:
O. norvegica
Binomial name
Omalotheca norvegica
(Gunnerus) F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip.
Synonyms[1]
  • Synchaeta norvegica Gnaphalium sylvaticum subsp. norvegicum
  • Gnaphalium medium Gamochaeta norvegica
  • (Gunnerus) Y.S.Chen & R.J.Bayer Pers.
  • Vill. (Gunnerus) Kirp.
  • Gnaphalium norvegicum Gnaphalium fuscum
  • Gunnerus (Gunnerus) Bonnier & Layens
  • Gnaphalium fuscatum Lam., nom. illeg.
  • (Pers.) Čelak. Gnaphalium sylvaticum subsp. fuscatum

Omalotheca norvegica, synonym Gnaphalium norvegicum, is a European species of plants in the family Asteraceae.[1] It is known as the highland cudweed[2] or Norwegian arctic cudweed.[3] It is native to eastern Canada and Greenland, and widespread across much of Eurasia from the Mediterranean north to Finland and Iceland and east to Siberia.[1][4][5]

Omalotheca norvegica is similar to Omalotheca sylvatica, heath cudweed. However, it is 8 to 30 cm tall, the leaves are 3 veined, and all roughly equal in length. The leaves are also wooly/hairy on both sides.

In Great Britain, it is a rare plant found in central Scotland and in the northern highlands, found on acidic mountain rocks. It flowers July to August.[6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Omalotheca norvegica (Gunnerus) F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip.". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:235188-1. 
  2. (xls) BSBI List 2007, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, https://bsbi.org/download/3542/, retrieved 2014-10-17 
  3. "Omalotheca norvegica". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=OMNO. Retrieved 22 July 2015. 
  4. Altervista Flora Italiana, Canapicchia norvegese, Gnaphalium norvegicum Gunnerus includes photos and European distribution map
  5. Tela Botanica, Gnaphalium norvegicum Gunnerus in French with photos and French distribution map
  6. Rose, Francis (1981). The Wild Flower Key. Frederick Warne & Co. pp. 377–380. ISBN 0-7232-2419-6. 

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