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shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting

pearly pussytoes, tall pussytoes

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

Distribution
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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
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. 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
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