#cudweed

A dried-out California cudweed (Pseudognaphalium californicum), also known as rabbit tobacco.

A member of the sunflower family, the cudweed is native to the U.S. West Coast.

'damp lumps radiating like the spokes of a wheel'.

Another dwarf daisy, found in all Australian mainland states, growing in sandy, loamy and granitic soils in a variety of habitats throughout inland Australia. We found it growing in all three types of soil. Apparently it grow to 12cm high, but we didn't see any even approaching that.

Emerging from the low geothermally-pruned shrubbery around the Craters of the Moon. Here's a better photo of the flowers.

AKA Helichrysum luteoalbum, but that's one of the fairly ridiculous umber of synonyms it's picked up ever since Linnaeus first described it as Gnaphalium luteo-album. In 1829, Ludwig Reichenbach transferred it to the Everlasting Daisies genus Helichrysum, which was prescient of him even if the name didn't stick, since much later genetic evidence says that the genus Pseudognaphalium arose from inside Helichrysum.

Jersey Cudweed grows in meadows, wastelands, and edges of forests. It's now so widespread that it's impossible to say where it originated - found on all inhabited continents, now, but probably naturalised in the New World. In Vietnam it's used as an ingredient in rice cakes.