OregonFlora: Antennaria rosea

	Antennaria microphylla (synonym of Antennaria rosea)
	littleleaf pussytoes, rosy pussytoes
Habit	Herbs dioecious or gynoecious; stolons herbaceous, horizontal to ascending, 1–10 cm.
Stems	5–30 cm, rarely stipitate glandular distally.
Basal leaves	usually forming rosettes, spatulate to oblanceolate, 8–40 × 2–10 mm, 1-veined; tips mucronate; surfaces usually gray-pubescent, adaxially sometimes green and glabrous.
Cauline leaves	linear, 5–36 mm; tips acute to subulate, usually not flagged.
Involucres	mostly glabrous to pubescent, staminate heads 4–8 mm, pistillate heads 4–10 mm.
Phyllaries	distally white to yellow, green, red, pink, gray, or rarely brown; tips rounded to acuminate.
Fruits	0.7–1.5 mm, glabrous to papillate.
Heads	3–20 per stem; in corymb-like arrays.
2n	=28, 42, 56, 70.

	Antennaria microphylla
Distribution	[WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
Discussion	Rocky areas, meadows, forests, disturbed areas. Flowering May–Sep. 200–3000 m. BR, BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Lava, Owy, Sisk. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to AK, northeast to Greenland, east to NE, southeast to NM. Native. Here we take a more inclusive approach and include within this species plants that some floras treat as A. rosea.
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. lanata, A. luzuloides, A. media, A. microphylla, A. pulvinata, A. racemosa, A. stenophylla, A. suffrutescens, A. umbrinella
Synonyms	Antennaria rosea, Antennaria rosea ssp. arida, Antennaria rosea ssp. confinis, Antennaria rosea ssp. rosea
Web links	Local floras: BC, CA, OR Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, Flora NW, PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Antennaria microphylla

(synonym of Antennaria rosea)

littleleaf pussytoes, rosy pussytoes

Habit

Herbs dioecious or gynoecious; stolons herbaceous, horizontal to ascending, 1–10 cm.

Stems

5–30 cm, rarely stipitate glandular distally.

Basal leaves

usually forming rosettes, spatulate to oblanceolate, 8–40 × 2–10 mm, 1-veined;

tips mucronate;

surfaces usually gray-pubescent, adaxially sometimes green and glabrous.

Cauline leaves

linear, 5–36 mm;

tips acute to subulate, usually not flagged.

Involucres

mostly glabrous to pubescent, staminate heads 4–8 mm, pistillate heads 4–10 mm.

Phyllaries

distally white to yellow, green, red, pink, gray, or rarely brown;

tips rounded to acuminate.

Fruits

0.7–1.5 mm, glabrous to papillate.

Heads

3–20 per stem; in corymb-like arrays.

=28, 42, 56, 70.

Antennaria microphylla

Distribution

[WildflowerSearch map]

[BONAP county map]

Discussion

Rocky areas, meadows, forests, disturbed areas. Flowering May–Sep. 200–3000 m. BR, BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Lava, Owy, Sisk. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to AK, northeast to Greenland, east to NE, southeast to NM. Native.

Here we take a more inclusive approach and include within this species plants that some floras treat as A. rosea.

Source

Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 178
Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers

Sibling taxa