Antennaria anaphaloides
Antennaria monocephala
pearly or handsome or tall pussytoes, pearly pussytoes, showy pussytoes, tall pussytoes
one-head pussytoes, pygmy pussytoes, single-head pussytoes
15–35(–50) cm.
5–13 cm (stems usually stipitate-glandular).
none.
2–4 cm.
(ephemeral) 3–5-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 25–150(–200) × 4–20(–25) mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent.
1-nerved, spatulate to narrowly spatulate or oblanceolate, 9–18 × 2–4 mm, tips mucronate, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial glabrous or green-glabrescent, or both gray-pubescent.
oblanceolate or linear, 10–80 mm, usually flagged.
linear, 4–11 mm, flagged.
staminate (4–)5–6.5 mm; pistillate 4.5–7 mm.
staminate 5–7 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
staminate 2.5–4 mm; pistillate 3–4.5 mm.
staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4 mm.
(each with dark brown or blackish spot in middle) distally white or cream (sometimes suffused pink to rose).
distally brown, dark brown, black, or olivaceous.
8–30(–50+) in corymbiform arrays.
usually borne singly (rarely 2–3).
1–1.8 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5(–5.5) mm.
1–1.3 mm, usually glabrous;
pappi: staminate 3–4 mm (none in gynoecious populations); pistillate 4–5 mm.
= 28.
= 28, 56, 60?, 70.
Antennaria anaphaloides
Antennaria monocephala
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.)
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
It seems reasonable to follow in part E. Hultén’s (1968) broad concept of Antennaria monocephala (R. J. Bayer 1991). Hultén circumscribed it as containing three subspecies. The sexual phase of A. monocephala (i.e., subsp. monocephala and subsp. philonipha) is known from southern Alaska, south of the Brooks Range, and to Yukon Territory and adjacent areas of the Northwest Territories and across the Bering Strait on the Chukotka Peninsula. Within his concept of A. monocephala, Hultén also circumscribed the presumably autopolyploid apomictic form of the species as A. monocephala subsp. angustata, thereby extending the range of the species across the Canadian arctic into Greenland and down the western Cordillera into Montana and Wyoming.
Antennaria monocephala subsp. monocephala is an amphimictic progenitor of the A. alpina agamic complex, as well as the sexual progenitor of the apomicts of subsp. angustata.
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1. Plants gynoecious (staminate plants unknown) | subsp. angustata |
1. Plants dioecious (staminates and pistillates in equal frequencies in populations) | subsp. monocephala |
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