Pseudognaphalium californicum(DC.) Anderb.

California cudweed

WFO wfo-0000011525 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Pseudognaphalium californicum, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. a Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-13 / obs. 187986172
Pseudognaphalium californicum, photographed by Steve Addison
fig. b Steve Addison, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204169063
Pseudognaphalium californicum, photographed by Nicholas Wei
fig. c Nicholas Wei, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188957681
Pseudognaphalium californicum, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. d Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 181684339
Pseudognaphalium californicum, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. e Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204420392
Pseudognaphalium californicum, photographed by jen
fig. f jen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205548824
Pseudognaphalium californicum, photographed by Vasily Reinkymov
fig. g Vasily Reinkymov, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185830628
Pseudognaphalium californicum, photographed by Dutza K.
fig. h Dutza K., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187838147

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 1,070 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,070 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Gnaphalium californicum DC.
  • Gnaphalium decurrens var. californicum (DC.) A.Gray

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.