Pictorial guide to the flora of the British Isles

Gnaphalium norvegicum Gunnerus

Highland cudweed (Asteraceae / Compositae)

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Gnaphalium norvegicum is an Arctic–Alpine plant that differs from Gnaphalium sylvaticum in its three-veined leaves, and the crowding of its flower-heads towards the top of the stem; a few dozen populations live in the Scottish Highlands.

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 Highland cudweed / Gnaphalium norvegicum: _Gnaphalium norvegicum_ is an Arctic–Alpine plant that differs from _Gnaphalium sylvaticum_ in its three-veined leaves, and the crowding of its flower-heads towards the top of the stem; a few dozen populations live in the Scottish Highlands.

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