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shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting

woolly everlasting, woolly pussytoes

Habit Subshrubs dioecious; stolons absent. Herbs dioecious; stolons absent.
Stems

5–12 cm, glandular.

3–15(20) cm, sometimes stipitate 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, 10–60(100) × 3–12 mm, 3-veined;

tips acute;

surfaces gray-woolly to tomentose.

Cauline leaves

5–12 × 0.5–2.5 mm;

tips emarginate to obtuse, not flagged.

linear, 5–40 mm;

tips acute; middle and distal flagged.

Involucres

pubescent proximally, staminate heads 5–9 mm, pistillate heads 5–8 mm.

pubescent proximally, staminate heads 4.5–6 mm, pistillate heads 5–8 mm.

Phyllaries

distally white;

tips acute to acuminate.

proximally dark or light brown to olive, distally light brown, cream, or white;

tips acute to acuminate.

Fruits

1–2 mm, papillate.

1–1.6 mm, glabrous.

Heads

solitary.

3–9 per stem; in corymb-like arrays.

2n

=28.

=28.

Antennaria suffrutescens

Antennaria lanata

Distribution
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Discussion

Coniferous forests, serpentine. Flowering May–Jul. 400–1600 m. CR, Sisk. CA. Native.

Open woods, meadows, slopes. Flowering Jun–Sep. 2100–3000 m. BW. CA, ID, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Alberta, east to WY. Native.

This species is easily distinguished by its woolly pubescence and prominent flags on the middle and distal cauline leaves.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 179
Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 178
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. anaphaloides, A. argentea, A. corymbosa, A. dimorpha, A. flagellaris, A. geyeri, A. howellii, A. luzuloides, A. media, A. microphylla, A. pulvinata, A. racemosa, A. stenophylla, A. suffrutescens, A. umbrinella
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