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Antennaria rosea

Antennaria umbrinella

brown-bract pussytoes, umber pussytoes
Habit Dioecious, mat-forming, stoloniferous perennial 5-40 cm. tall; stolons up to 10 cm. long, decumbent; upper surface of the stems with stalked glands, the hairs white or purple. Mat-forming, stoloniferous perennial from a woody base, the stems up to 2 dm. tall. Stolons often upright and erect.
Leaves

Leaves 1-nerved;

upper surface of the leaves covered with silvery-white hairs;

basal leaves spatulate or oblanceolate with a wedge-shaped base;

cauline leaves linear, alternate.

Basal leaves oblanceolate, up to 25 mm. long and 7 mm. wide, loosely white-woolly on both sides;

cauline leaves few and reduced.
Flowers

Heads several in a sub-capitate cyme; pistillate involucres 4-10 mm. long; scarious portion of the involucre bracts white, straw-colored or light yellow.

Heads several in a compact cluster;

involucral bracts rounded at the tip, the scarious portion of the outer ones brownish to dirty greenish, the inner ones often whitish toward the tip, or sometimes all the bracts brownish; pistillate involucres 4-7 mm. high; staminate plants uncommon.
Fruits

Achene.

Fruit an achene.

Antennaria rosea

Antennaria umbrinella
Flowering time June-August May-August
Habitat Dry to moist habitats, including meadows, ponderosa pine forest openings, rocky slopes, and floodplains from the lowlands to the alpine. Forest openings at middle elevations to subalpine meadows.
Distribution
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington, but more common east of the crest; Alaska to California, east to the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains, Great Lakes region, and eastern Canada.
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Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Saskatchewan, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Sibling taxa
A. alpina, A. anaphaloides, A. corymbosa, A. dimorpha, A. flagellaris, A. geyeri, A. howellii, A. lanata, A. luzuloides, A. media, A. microphylla, A. monocephala, A. parvifolia, A. pulcherrima, A. racemosa, A. stenophylla, A. umbrinella
A. alpina, A. anaphaloides, A. corymbosa, A. dimorpha, A. flagellaris, A. geyeri, A. howellii, A. lanata, A. luzuloides, A. media, A. microphylla, A. monocephala, A. parvifolia, A. pulcherrima, A. racemosa, A. stenophylla
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