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littleleaf pussytoes, rosy pussytoes

Geyer's pussytoes, pinewoods 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.

3–14 cm, often 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, withered or absent at flowering.

Cauline leaves

linear, 5–36 mm;

tips acute to subulate, usually not flagged.

linear-lanceolate to cuneate-oblanceolate, 11–35 × 2–6 mm;

tips acute, not flagged.

Involucres

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

densely tomentose, staminate heads 6–8 mm, pistillate heads 6–8 mm.

Phyllaries

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

tips rounded to acuminate.

distally pink, red, light brown or white;

tips acute.

Fruits

0.7–1.5 mm, glabrous to papillate.

2–2.5 mm, papillate, pubescent.

Heads

3–20 per stem; in corymb-like arrays.

3–25 per stem; in corymb-like or panicle-like arrays.

2n

=28, 42, 56, 70.

=28.

Antennaria microphylla

Antennaria geyeri

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.

Dry slopes, flats, openings in forests. Flowering Jun–Aug. 900–2200 m. BR, BW, Casc, ECas, Lava, Sisk. CA, NV, WA. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 178
Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 177
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. anaphaloides, A. argentea, A. corymbosa, A. dimorpha, A. flagellaris, 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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