OregonFlora: Antennaria anaphaloides

	Antennaria anaphaloides
	pearly pussytoes, tall pussytoes
Habit	Herbs dioecious; stolons absent.
Stems	15–35(50) cm, sometimes glandular.
Basal leaves	not rosette-like, narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 25–150(200) × 4–20(25) mm, 3–5-veined; tips mucronate; surfaces gray-pubescent.
Cauline leaves	oblanceolate to linear, 10–80 mm; tips acute to acuminate, usually flagged.
Involucres	densely tomentose proximally, staminate heads (4)5–6.5 mm, pistillate heads 4.5–7 mm.
Phyllaries	with dark brown spot or band near base of scarious portion, distally white or cream, sometimes pink to red; tips acute to acuminate.
Fruits	1–1.8 mm, glabrous.
Heads	8–30(50+) per stem; in corymb-like arrays.
2n	=28.

	Antennaria anaphaloides
Distribution	[WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
Discussion	Meadows, openings in shrublands or forests. Flowering May–Jul. 900–2800 m. BR, BW, Lava. NV, ID, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Saskatchewan, east to WY, southeast to CO. Native.
Source	Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 176 Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers
Sibling taxa	A. argentea, A. corymbosa, A. dimorpha, A. flagellaris, A. geyeri, A. howellii, A. lanata, A. luzuloides, A. media, A. microphylla, A. pulvinata, A. racemosa, A. stenophylla, A. suffrutescens, A. umbrinella
Web links	Local floras: BC, OR, WA Local Web sites: Flora NW, PNW Herbaria WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Antennaria anaphaloides

pearly pussytoes, tall pussytoes

Habit

Herbs dioecious; stolons absent.

Stems

15–35(50) cm, sometimes glandular.

Basal leaves

not rosette-like, narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 25–150(200) × 4–20(25) mm, 3–5-veined;

tips mucronate;

surfaces gray-pubescent.

Cauline leaves

oblanceolate to linear, 10–80 mm;

tips acute to acuminate, usually flagged.

Involucres

densely tomentose proximally, staminate heads (4)5–6.5 mm, pistillate heads 4.5–7 mm.

Phyllaries

with dark brown spot or band near base of scarious portion, distally white or cream, sometimes pink to red;

tips acute to acuminate.

Fruits

1–1.8 mm, glabrous.

Heads

8–30(50+) per stem; in corymb-like arrays.

=28.

Antennaria anaphaloides

Distribution

[WildflowerSearch map]

[BONAP county map]

Discussion

Meadows, openings in shrublands or forests. Flowering May–Jul. 900–2800 m. BR, BW, Lava. NV, ID, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Saskatchewan, east to WY, southeast to CO. Native.

Source

Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 176
Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers

Sibling taxa