Antennaria microphylla(synonym of Antennaria rosea) |
Antennaria howellii |
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littleleaf pussytoes, rosy pussytoes |
Howell's pussytoes |
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Habit | Herbs dioecious or gynoecious; stolons herbaceous, horizontal to ascending, 1–10 cm. | Herbs gynoecious, staminate plants uncommon; stolons 1–8(12) cm. |
Stems | 5–30 cm, rarely stipitate glandular distally. |
(6)8–35 cm, not 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. |
usually forming rosettes, oblanceolate, cuneate-oblanceolate; ovate, or spatulate; (14)20–50(65) × 2.5–20 mm, 1–3-veined; tips mucronate; surfaces abaxially tomentose, adaxially glabrous to gray-pubescent. |
Cauline leaves | linear, 5–36 mm; tips acute to subulate, usually not flagged. |
linear, 8–40 mm; tips acute to acuminate; distal sometimes flagged. |
Involucres | mostly glabrous to pubescent, staminate heads 4–8 mm, pistillate heads 4–10 mm. |
mostly glabrous to pubescent, staminate heads 6–6.5 mm, pistillate heads 6–11 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally white to yellow, green, red, pink, gray, or rarely brown; tips rounded to acuminate. |
distally white to light brown; tips acute to acuminate, rarely rounded. |
Fruits | 0.7–1.5 mm, glabrous to papillate. |
0.8–2 mm, sometimes papillate. |
Heads | 3–20 per stem; in corymb-like arrays. |
4–15 per stem; in corymb-like arrays. |
2n | =28, 42, 56, 70. |
=56, 84, 140. |
Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria howellii |
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Distribution | ||
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. |
Canada and northern US. 4 subspecies; 3 subspecies treated in Flora. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 178 Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 177 Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers |
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Synonyms | Antennaria rosea, Antennaria rosea ssp. arida, Antennaria rosea ssp. confinis, Antennaria rosea ssp. rosea | Antennaria neglecta |
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