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Ontario Weeds: Low cudweed
Return to the Ontario Weeds Gallery Excerpt from Publication 505, Ontario Weeds, Order this publication Table of Contents
Other Names: gnaphale des vases, immortelle des vases Family: Composite or Aster Family (Compositae) General Description: Annual, reproducing only by seed. | Top of Page |
| Top of Page | Stems & Roots: Stems much-branched, 5-25cm (2-10in.) high, densely fine-hairy to woolly Leaves: leaves alternate (1 per node) but numerous and appearing tufted near the tips of branches, narrow and linear or a little wider near the tip, hairy, gray-green to silvery-gray. Flowers & Fruit: Flower heads very small and crowded in small clusters near the ends of the branches and in axils of leaves, whitish to light brownish-green to straw-coloured, without ray florets; involucral bracts tiny, thin, papery, tan or light brownish. Flowers from July to late autumn.| Top of Page | Habitat: Low cudweed occurs throughout Ontario in low, moist, or poorly drained situations in meadows, pastures, depressions in cultivated fields, streams, valleys and roadside ditches. It often forms dense patches in depressions in grainfields where it can tolerate poorly drained conditions better than most cultivated plants. Similar Species: It is distinguished by its low, much-branched stature with narrow leaves, its silvery-gray appearance, and its small, crowded brownish-green to straw-coloured flower heads surrounded by thin, papery involucral bracts. Related Links| Back to the Ontario Weeds Gallery | Top of Page | For more information:Toll Free: 1-877-424-1300 Local: (519) 826-4047 E-mail: ag.info.omafra@ontario.ca |
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