Omalotheca norvegica
Species of flowering plant
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Omalotheca norvegica, synonym Gnaphalium norvegicum, is a European species of plants in the family Asteraceae.[1] It is known as the highland cudweed[2] or Norwegian arctic cudweed.[3] It is native to eastern Canada and Greenland, and widespread across much of Eurasia from the Mediterranean north to Finland and Iceland and east to Siberia.[1][4][5]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Omalotheca |
| Species: | O. norvegica |
| Binomial name | |
| Omalotheca norvegica (Gunnerus) F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip. | |
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Omalotheca norvegica is similar to Omalotheca sylvatica, heath cudweed. However, it is 8 to 30 cm tall, the leaves are 3 veined, and all roughly equal in length. The leaves are also wooly/hairy on both sides.
In Great Britain, it is a rare plant found in central Scotland and in the northern highlands, found on acidic mountain rocks. It flowers July to August.[6]
