Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria racemosa |
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Hooker's pussytoes, raceme pussytoes |
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Habit | Perennial with creeping, leafy stolons, 1-6 dm. tall. | |
Leaves | Basal leaves short-petiolate with elliptic to elliptic-ovate blade1.5-8 cm. long and 1- 5 cm. wide, persistently white-woolly beneath, green and glabrous above; cauline leaves narrower, sessile; stems strongly glandular in the upper portion. |
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Flowers | Heads on slender peduncles in a narrow, raceme-like inflorescence; staminate involucres 4-5 mm. high, but wider than the pistillate; pistillate 6-8 mm. high, strongly imbricate, the inner bracts narrow and elongate, pale greenish below, colorless and transparent to pale brownish above. |
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Fruits | Achene terete |
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Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria racemosa |
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Identification notes | The wide, green leaves and narrow, open inflorescence should separate Antennaria racemosa from A. howellii, the only other species in our area with green leaves, which has smaller leaves and a congested inflorescence. | |
Flowering time | May-August | |
Habitat | Dry to damp rocky slopes, forest openings, and ledges from low to elevations to the alpine. | |
Distribution | Widely distributed in mountainous areas on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Alberta, Montana, and Wyoming.
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Origin | Native | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
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