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littleleaf pussytoes, rosy pussytoes

pearly pussytoes, tall pussytoes

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

5–30 cm, rarely stipitate glandular distally.

15–35(50) cm, sometimes glandular.

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.

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

linear, 5–36 mm;

tips acute to subulate, usually not flagged.

oblanceolate to linear, 10–80 mm;

tips acute to acuminate, usually flagged.

Involucres

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

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

Phyllaries

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

tips rounded to acuminate.

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

tips acute to acuminate.

Fruits

0.7–1.5 mm, glabrous to papillate.

1–1.8 mm, glabrous.

Heads

3–20 per stem; in corymb-like arrays.

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

2n

=28, 42, 56, 70.

=28.

Antennaria microphylla

Antennaria anaphaloides

Distribution
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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.

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 178
Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 176
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
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
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