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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Cudweeds, Everlastings, and Pussytoes
  8. Cudweeds

genus

Cudweeds

Gnaphalium

Traits
Includes
3 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Marsh Cudweed native
  • Western Marsh Cudweed native
  • Manystem Cudweed
  • Slender Cudweed native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Annual Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native cudweeds All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Marsh Cudweed Gnaphalium uliginosum caterpillars 10 food 7 flowers 6
  • Western Marsh Cudweed Gnaphalium palustre caterpillars 8 flowers 4
  • Slender Cudweed Gnaphalium exilifolium caterpillars 4 flowers 2

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