Flora of North America species comparison

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Antennaria lanata

woolly everlasting, woolly pussy-toes
Habit Dioecious.
Plants

3–20 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout).
Stolons

none.
Basal leaves

3-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate, 10–60(–100) × 3–12 mm, tips acute, faces gray-woolly or tomentose.
Cauline leaves

linear, 5–40 mm, mid and distal flagged.
Involucres

staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
Corollas

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

(proximally light brown, dark brown, or olivaceous) distally whitish or light brown.
Heads

3–9 in corymbiform arrays.
Cypselae

1–1.6 mm, glabrous;

pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm.
2n

= 28 (under A. neodioica).

Antennaria lanata
Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Protected alpine and subalpine sites, gravelly or sandy soils near conifers at timberline
Elevation 1400–3400 m (4600–11200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; MT; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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Source FNA vol. 19, p. 399.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria
Sibling taxa
A. alpina, A. anaphaloides, A. arcuata, A. argentea, A. aromatica, A. corymbosa, A. densifolia, A. dimorpha, A. dioica, A. flagellaris, A. friesiana, A. geyeri, A. howellii, 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. carpatica var. lanata
Name authority (Hooker) Greene: Pittonia 3: 288. (1898)
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