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woolly everlasting, woolly pussytoes

Habit Herbs dioecious; stolons absent.
Stems

3–15(20) cm, sometimes stipitate glandular.

Basal leaves

not rosette-like, narrowly oblanceolate, 10–60(100) × 3–12 mm, 3-veined;

tips acute;

surfaces gray-woolly to tomentose.

Cauline leaves

linear, 5–40 mm;

tips acute; middle and distal flagged.

Involucres

pubescent proximally, staminate heads 4.5–6 mm, pistillate heads 5–8 mm.

Phyllaries

proximally dark or light brown to olive, distally light brown, cream, or white;

tips acute to acuminate.

Fruits

1–1.6 mm, glabrous.

Heads

3–9 per stem; in corymb-like arrays.

2n

=28.

Antennaria lanata

Antennaria dioica

Distribution
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Discussion

Open woods, meadows, slopes. Flowering Jun–Sep. 2100–3000 m. BW. CA, ID, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Alberta, east to WY. Native.

This species is easily distinguished by its woolly pubescence and prominent flags on the middle and distal cauline leaves.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 178
Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers
Sibling taxa
A. anaphaloides, A. argentea, A. corymbosa, A. dimorpha, A. flagellaris, A. geyeri, A. howellii, A. luzuloides, A. media, A. microphylla, A. pulvinata, A. racemosa, A. stenophylla, A. suffrutescens, A. umbrinella
A. anaphaloides, 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
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