Gnaphalium exilifolium A.Nelson

Annuals, 3–15(–25) cm; taprooted or fibrous-rooted. Stems commonly branched from bases, erect to ascending, tomentose. Leaf blades linear, 0.4–5 cm × 0.5–3 mm. Bracts subtending heads linear, 10–25 × 0.5–1 mm, surpassing glomerules. Heads in spiciform glomerules (along distal 1/3–2/3 of main stems, sometimes appearing loosely spiciform). Involucres 2.5–3.5 mm. Phyllaries brownish, bases woolly, inner narrowly triangular with whitish, acute apices. 2n = 14.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.