Omalotheca norvegica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Omalotheca |
Species: | O. norvegica
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Binomial name | |
Omalotheca norvegica (
Gunnerus) F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip.
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Synonyms [1] | |
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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]