Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria lanata |
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shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting |
woolly everlasting, woolly pussytoes |
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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 |
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Distribution | ||
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 |
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