Alpine Arctic-cudweed, gnaphale couché

Gnaphalium supinum Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 3: 234. 1768

Plants 2–8(–12) cm. Leaves mostly basal (in persistent rosettes); blades 1-nerved, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 5–25 × 3 mm, cauline similar, faces concolor, gray-green, thinly woolly. Heads (usually 1–7) in subcapitate to loose, spiciform arrays. Involucres campanulate, 5–6 mm. Phyllaries light green to tan, oblong to lanceolate, outer obtuse, inner mostly acute, margins and tips dark brown. Cypselae obovoid, strigose; pappus bristles distinct, falling separately. 2n = 28.

Flowering Jul–Sep. Granite outcrops, gravelly slopes, other alpine sites; 200–1300 m; Greenland; Nfld. and Labr., Que.; Maine, N.H., Vt.; Europe; Asia (Caucasus, Iran).