Common (vernacular) names applied to California vascular plants
compiled by Elizabeth Painter
up to date as of May 1, 2016
Common names (also referred to as vernacular names) are applied differently at different times and places by different users. This list is compiled from many sources and is intended to be as comprehensive as possible. It is not intended to indicate which common name is correct or preferred. Please send comments about this page to Elizabeth Painter (beth.painter.48@gmail.com).
| Taxon | Pseudognaphalium beneolens |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Family common name(s) | composite; composita; comp; aster; asterwort; asterworts; sunflower; daisy; dandelion |
| Genus common name(s) | false-cudweed; false cudweed; falsecud weed |
| Species common name(s) | fragrant pearly everlasting; silvery-white fragrant everlasting; scented silver cudweed; coastal rabbit-tobacco; coastal rabbit tobacco; coastal pearly everlasting |
| | | | | Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | cudweed, cud-weed, everlasting, rabbit tobacco, rabbit-tobacco are applied to multiple Asteraceae taxa; Wright's rabbit-tobacco, Wright's cudweed, felt-leaved everlasting, felt-leaf everlasting, feltleaf everlasting, felt leaf everlasting are more commonly applied to Pseudognaphalium canescens; everlasting cudweed, fragrant everlasting cudweed, fragrant everlasting, fragrant rabbit-tobacco, fragrant cudweed, coastal everlasting, white cudweed, white everlasting, slender cudweed, silver cudweed, grey cudweed are applied to multiple Pseudognaphalium taxa; pearly everlasting is more commonly applied to Anaphalis margaritacea; common sandaster, common sand-aster, common sand aster are more commonly applied to Corethrogyne filaginifolia |
| | | | | Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Gnaphalium canescens DC. subsp. beneolens (Davidson) Stebbins & D.J. Keil; Gnaphalium beneolens Davidson; Pseudognaphalium canescens (DC.) W.A. Weber subsp. beneolens (Davidson) Kartesz |
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