Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria anaphaloides |
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shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting |
pearly pussytoes, tall pussytoes |
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Habit | Subshrubs dioecious; stolons absent. | Herbs dioecious; stolons absent. |
Stems | 5–12 cm, glandular. |
15–35(50) cm, sometimes glandular. |
Basal leaves | spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, 1-veined; tips emarginate to obtuse; surfaces abaxially tomentose, adaxially green and glabrous, sometimes glandular. |
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 | 5–12 × 0.5–2.5 mm; tips emarginate to obtuse, not flagged. |
oblanceolate to linear, 10–80 mm; tips acute to acuminate, usually flagged. |
Involucres | pubescent proximally, staminate heads 5–9 mm, pistillate heads 5–8 mm. |
densely tomentose proximally, staminate heads (4)5–6.5 mm, pistillate heads 4.5–7 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally white; tips acute 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 | 1–2 mm, papillate. |
1–1.8 mm, glabrous. |
Heads | solitary. |
8–30(50+) per stem; in corymb-like arrays. |
2n | =28. |
=28. |
Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria anaphaloides |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Coniferous forests, serpentine. Flowering May–Jul. 400–1600 m. CR, Sisk. CA. Native. |
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 179 Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 176 Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers |
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