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Diaperia candida

silver rabbit-tobacco
Habit Plants grayish silvery, 3–25 cm, densely sericeous.
Stems

mostly 1;

branches proximal or none.
Leaves

largest 10–18 × 2–3 mm;

capitular leaves subtending glomerules only, or sometimes also hidden between and surpassed by heads.
Receptacles

± spheric, 0.3–0.5 mm, heights ± equal to diams.
Bisexual florets

3–5;

corollas protruding from heads, ± zygomorphic, 0.5–0.9 mm, glabrous, lobes unequal (1–2 enlarged).
Heads

proximal and distal, in spiciform or racemiform arrays, ± spheric, 1.5–2 mm, heights ± equal to diams.
Cypselae

rounded, ± terete, mostly 0.5–0.6 mm (bisexual slightly longer).
Pistillate

paleae scarcely imbricate, longest 0.9–1.3 mm.
Bisexual

paleae mostly 1–3, apices incurved, ± involute, gibbous.
Functionally

staminate florets usually 0.
2n

= 14.

Diaperia candida
Phenology Flowering and fruiting late Mar–early Jun.
Habitat Open, dry, deep sandy soils, oak and pine woodlands, prairies, coastal areas, sometimes disturbed sites (fields, lawns, road beds)
Elevation 10–400 m (0–1300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AR; LA; OK; TX
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Diaperia candida is the most restricted of the three species, occupying most of eastern Texas (including the coast) and extending to adjacent corners of southeastern Oklahoma, southwestern Arkansas, and northwestern Louisiana.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 461.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Diaperia
Sibling taxa
D. prolifera, D. verna
Synonyms Calymmandra candida, Evax candida
Name authority (Torrey & A. Gray) Bentham & Hooker f.: Gen. Pl. 2: 298. (1873)
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