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woolly everlasting, woolly pussy-toes

silver pussytoes, silvery everlasting, silvery pussytoes

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

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
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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.)

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 399. FNA vol. 19, p. 397.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria 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
A. alpina, A. anaphaloides, A. arcuata, 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. carpatica var. lanata
Name authority (Hooker) Greene: Pittonia 3: 288. (1898) Bentham: Pl. Hartw., 319. (1849)
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