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shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting

aromatic pussytoes, pulvinate pussytoes

Habit Subshrubs dioecious; stolons absent. Herbs dioecious or gynoecious; stolons 1–6 cm.
Stems

5–12 cm, glandular.

2–7 cm, usually 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.

usually forming rosettes, cuneate-spatulate, rarely oblanceolate, 5–16 × 3–10 mm, 1-veined;

tips mucronate;

surfaces gray-pubescent, often glandular.

Cauline leaves

5–12 × 0.5–2.5 mm;

tips emarginate to obtuse, not flagged.

linear, 3–14 mm;

tips acute, not flagged.

Involucres

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

mostly glabrous, staminate heads 4.5–6.5 mm, pistillate heads 3.5–4.5 mm.

Phyllaries

distally white;

tips acute to acuminate.

distally light to dark brown or olive;

tips acute to acuminate.

Fruits

1–2 mm, papillate.

0.9–2 mm, papillate.

Heads

solitary.

2–5 per stem; in corymb-like arrays.

2n

=28.

=28, 56, 84.

Antennaria suffrutescens

Antennaria pulvinata

Distribution
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Discussion

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

Limestone talus. Flowering Aug. 2400–3000 m. BW. CA, ID, WA; north to AK, northeast to Newfoundland, east to MI, southeast to CO. Native.

Oregon specimens of A. pulvinata have varying degrees of glandularity. This species includes both sexual diploid and apomictic polyploid populations that some floras may refer to as A. aromatica and A. rosea ssp. pulvinata, respectively (Chmielewski 1993).

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 179
Katie Mitchell, Stephen Meyers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 179
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. lanata, A. luzuloides, A. media, A. microphylla, A. racemosa, A. stenophylla, A. suffrutescens, A. umbrinella
Synonyms Antennaria aromatica, Antennaria rosea ssp. pulvinata
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