Gnaphalium luteo–album L. See also Part II (click here)
Conservation status: CR
First record: Relhan, 1801 Last record: Relhan, 1802
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Gnaph lut alb I have the pleasure of sending you today a wild specimen of Gnaphalium luteoalbum, found by the side of the road leading from Hauxton to Little Shelford: the place is far from any house: it grows also in a gravel–pit about a quarter of a mile distant from the Road. I understand from Mr Holme you lost the plant I sent you last year: do let us have a figure of this. Cambridge 11.9.1801, Relhan in litt. Sowerby,47:46.
Our specimen however is of English growth, and, as Mr Relhan thinks, indubitably wild, having been found by him in the road from Hanxtown [Hauxton] to Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, far from any house (nor is it, indeed, a garden plant), also in a gravel–pit a quarter of a mile from the road. We give it on that gentleman's authority; and the only question can be, whether its very volatile seeds.could have been wafted thither.from the botanic garden at Cambridge. Smith,Eng.Bot. (1802) 14: 1002.
(Hauxton) Spec. Hb Sowerby coll. by Relhan 1802, BM & J.Bot. (1899) 37:520–521.
Between Hauxton & Little Shelford. Camb. Dreyer ann. Smith,1800:867.
From Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Presented to me by the Rev. R. Relhan. [WS] Hort.Sicc.6:13,WBCH.
From Shelford, Cambridge. Sent to me by Relhan. Skrim.MS.
Jersey Cud–weed. Between Hauxton, and Little Shelford, by the Road–side: and in a Gravel–pit, on the Right Hand Side of the Road, leading towards Little Shelford. Relhan,1802;1820.
Gnaph lut–alb Indubitably wild. (Rev.R.Relhan.) Eng.Fl.,NBG,1835,148.
... right of the road; Relh. I find no gravel pit now, 1859. Bab.MS.Fl.2:402.
Between Hauxton and Little Shelford, by the road–side, and in a gravel–pit to the right of the road; Relhan. He sent a specimen from thence in 1802, which was figured in English Botany. I cannot find the plant by the road–side, and the gravel–pit I believe to be levelled and cultivated. Bab.1860,127.
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One colony naturalized in Botanic Garden near Conservation Greenhouse, [from seed collected in north Norfolk by G Crompton in 1970s], GMS Easy, 16.5.1987. [It is also still naturalised and quite abundant in G Crompton's garden at Swaffham Bulbeck, 2000.]
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40–50 flowering on Chesterton Railway Sidings (Milton), 4775.611, GMS Easy, 19.9.1999.
Large colony (hundreds of plants – approx. 2000), Chesterton Railway Sidings (Milton), GMS Easy, August, 2000; approximately 2000 flowering stems in 60 x 10 metres, GMS Easy, G Crompton, H Tribe et al, 27.8.2000.; AC Leslie, September, 2000.
Small colony of motly prostrate/rosette plants in c. 9 x 2m. GMS Easy, NP Millar & G Crompton, 20.7.2001.
