Antennaria lanata |
Antennaria argentea |
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woolly everlasting, woolly pussy-toes |
silver pussytoes, silvery everlasting, silvery pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 3–20 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout). |
18–40 cm. |
Stolons | none. |
none. |
Basal leaves | 3-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate, 10–60(–100) × 3–12 mm, tips acute, faces gray-woolly or tomentose. |
1–3-nerved, oblanceolate to elliptic, 20–50 × 4–15 mm, tips acute, faces ± gray-tomentose. |
Cauline leaves | linear, 5–40 mm, mid and distal flagged. |
lanceolate, 15–45 mm, not flagged. |
Involucres | staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. |
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 4–5 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–4 mm. |
staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 3–4 mm. |
Phyllaries | (proximally light brown, dark brown, or olivaceous) distally whitish or light brown. |
(relatively broad) distally silvery white. |
Heads | 3–9 in corymbiform arrays. |
10–75 in paniculiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 1–1.6 mm, glabrous; pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm. |
1–1.5 mm, glandular; pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3–4 mm. |
2n | = 28 (under A. neodioica). |
= 28. |
Antennaria lanata |
Antennaria argentea |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Protected alpine and subalpine sites, gravelly or sandy soils near conifers at timberline | Openings in dry coniferous forests |
Elevation | 1400–3400 m (4600–11200 ft) | 600–2000 m (2000–6600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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CA; NV; OR; WA
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Discussion | Antennaria argentea is distinguished by its robustly stoloniferous habit and silvery white phyllaries. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 399. | FNA vol. 19, p. 397. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. carpatica var. lanata | |
Name authority | (Hooker) Greene: Pittonia 3: 288. (1898) | Bentham: Pl. Hartw., 319. (1849) |
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