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Antennaria anaphaloides

pearly or handsome or tall pussytoes, pearly pussytoes, showy pussytoes, tall pussytoes
Habit Dioecious.
Plants

15–35(–50) cm.
Stolons

none.
Basal leaves

(ephemeral) 3–5-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 25–150(–200) × 4–20(–25) mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent.
Cauline leaves

oblanceolate or linear, 10–80 mm, usually flagged.
Involucres

staminate (4–)5–6.5 mm; pistillate 4.5–7 mm.
Corollas

staminate 2.5–4 mm; pistillate 3–4.5 mm.
Phyllaries

(each with dark brown or blackish spot in middle) distally white or cream (sometimes suffused pink to rose).
Heads

8–30(–50+) in corymbiform arrays.
Cypselae

1–1.8 mm, glabrous;

pappi: staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5(–5.5) mm.
2n

= 28.

Antennaria anaphaloides
Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Dry meadows and aspen forest openings
Elevation 1000–3400 m (3300–11200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK
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Discussion

Antennaria anaphaloides is native to the northern Rocky Mountains and is characterized by whitish phyllaries, each with a black spot at the base. Some morphologic overlap occurs between A. anaphaloides and A. pulcherrima; the two occur in different habitats: A. anaphaloides grows in dry meadows and aspen forest openings; A. pulcherrima is usually found in moist willow thickets along streams (K. M. Urbanska 1983). Antennaria anaphaloides is closely related to the other members of the Pulcherrimae group (R. J. Bayer 1990; Bayer et al. 1996).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 399.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria
Sibling taxa
A. alpina, A. arcuata, A. argentea, A. aromatica, A. corymbosa, A. densifolia, A. dimorpha, A. dioica, A. flagellaris, A. friesiana, A. geyeri, A. howellii, A. lanata, A. luzuloides, A. marginata, A. media, A. microphylla, A. monocephala, A. neglecta, A. parlinii, A. parvifolia, A. plantaginifolia, A. pulchella, A. pulcherrima, A. racemosa, A. rosea, A. rosulata, A. soliceps, A. solitaria, A. stenophylla, A. suffrutescens, A. umbrinella, A. virginica
Synonyms A. anaphaloides var. straminea, A. pulcherrima subsp. anaphaloides, A. pulcherrima var. anaphaloides
Name authority Rydberg: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 409. (1900)
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