Cotton-batting Plant

Pseudognaphalium stramineum

TJM1: Gnaphalium stramineum.

Family: Asteraceae(discoid) (SUNFLOWER).
Other common names: Chilean cudweed, small flowered cudweed, everlasting cudweed.
Generic common name: CUDWEED, EVERLASTING.

Location: Cabrillo National Monument: coastal sage scrub, April 2008.

Characteristics: Native, White, Yellow, Small, Clusters, Simple, Herbaceous, Annual, Early Spring, Late Spring, Summer.

Photographed out of range.
If you see this in or near the SMM floristic region we'd like to know.