2.
Omalotheca norvegica
(Gunnerus) Schultz-Bipontinus & F. W. Schultz in F. W. Schultz, Arch. Fl. 311. 1861.
Norwegian Arctic-cudweed, gnaphale de Norvège
Gnaphalium norvegicum
Gunnerus, Fl. Norveg. 2: 105. 1772
Plants
10—40 cm.
Leaves
basal and cauline, basal petiolate, blades 3-nerved, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5—12 cm × 6—30 mm, distal cauline slightly smaller, oblanceolate, faces concolor or weakly bicolor, grayish, thinly woolly.
Heads
(10—60+) in compact, spiciform (leafy-bracteate, sometimes interrupted) arrays (1.5—14 cm, occupying
1
/8—
1
/4 of plant heights, primary axes usually not visible).
Involucres
cylindro-campanulate, 5.5—6 mm.
Phyllaries
brown to reddish brown with narrow pale center and base.
Cypselae
cylindric, minutely strigose;
pappus
bristles basally connate, falling together.
2
n
= 56.
Flowering Jul—Sep. Wet or peaty slopes, alpine and subalpine meadows, cliff ledges, rocky slopes; 400—1300 m; Greenland; Nfld. and Labr., Que.; Europe.
