I strip the leaves off by pinching the stem…. I toss any of the little small sticks that I might pull. Here are the byproducts of prepping rabbit tobacco: leaves, flowers, roots, stems, and wildlife. Store the leaves and flowers in a cool dry dark place. To Pin! Your email address will not be published. Your beautiful photos capture the essence of rabbit tobacco. Yet it is full of life and Rabbit medicine; I moved from Minnesota to Oregon five years ago and miss it dearly!
Will Rabbit Tobacco grow in Oregon? This is the information I have been looking for, thank you for sharing! I have found some growing and just learned what it is…. Thank you so much! Have you posted Part 3 yet? Can you also include how it can be used in a nebulizer assuming it can…. Thank you for this tutorial! Found it on Pinterest!
Question we have a plant around here that looks so much like it. We never knew the name,but, we called it the Butterscotch plant as it has a wonderful scent in the dry stage.
Is this the same thing? Sure looks like it. Thank you! It could be! There are many plants in this family, and you can sometimes use them in the same way with similar results. Chrysopsis mariana. Solidago chilensis. Lespedeza virginica. Tweet this Page Share on Facebook. Previously known as: Gnaphalium obtusifolium Gnaphalium obtusifolium var. All the members of this informal group of plant lovers are way over my head in knowledge and ability but I keep hanging on, hoping to gain a scrap of the wildflower skill that they have.
On this particular day we encountered Rabbit Tobacco, or Gnaphalium obtusifolium. Composites include such well-known beauties as asters, daisies, and sunflowers.
Rabbit Tobacco is an attractive wildflower when blooming but I could see little resemblance to a daisy. Rabbit Tobacco is an annual but on occasion is biennial. The plant has branching clusters of white tubular flower heads on 1 to 3 foot stems and narrow, elliptical leaves. The species is not fond of low or damp areas but can thrive on roadsides, slopes or waste. Most wildflower books don't list the plant but many herbal references do. Rabbit Tobacco blooms in late summer to fall but when I encountered the plant again in the winter I realized that this was indeed the same plant I remembered from my youth.
Habitat terrestrial New England state Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Specific habitat edges of forests man-made or disturbed habitats woodlands. Plant odor the plant has a pleasant odor, such as licorice, fruit or resin. Leaves on stem there is at least one full leaf above the base of the flowering stem Stem bloom there is no powdery or waxy film on the stem Stem internode hair direction the hairs point mostly upwards to outwards Stem internode hair type at least some of the hairs on the stem have glands Stem internode hairs the stem has hairs between the nodes Stem wings the stem does not have wings on it.
Native to North America? Sometimes Confused With Pseudognaphalium macounii : leaf blades decurrent on the stem as thin wings, acuminate at the apex vs. Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium : stems usually with persistent, white tomentum, sometimes only sparsely so, appearing gray or gray-green, eglandular or infrequently stipitate-glandular near the base, and capitula wth 4—8 bisexual flowers and 38—96 carpellate flowers vs.
Synonyms Gnaphalium helleri Britt. Family Asteraceae. Genus Pseudognaphalium.
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