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DESCRIPTION:
Purple cudweed is a low-growing summer or winter annual broadleaf plant. Cotyledons (seed leaves)
are smooth, rounded, and grayish green. The first true leaves are
covered with web-like silky hairs. In young plants, stems do not
elongate and leaves form a rosette. In mature plants, stems elongate
from the rosette but do not usually branch. Leaves on elongating
stems are alternate, and the upper surface is covered with woolly
white hairs. The flower heads are crowded, spikelike, and densely
arranged on the stem or at the base of leaf stalks. Individual flowers
are tan to white and surrounded by light brown, pink, or bracts (reduced leaves). The fruit bears bristly,
tuftlike projections that are shed at maturity.
Broadleaf ID illustration.
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