Antennaria lanata |
Antennaria flagellaris |
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woolly everlasting, woolly pussy-toes |
flagellate pussytoes, stoloniferous everlasting, stoloniferous pussy-toes, whip pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 3–20 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout). |
0.5–1.5 cm. |
Stolons | none. |
3–10 cm (leafless except tips, relatively slender). |
Basal leaves | 3-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate, 10–60(–100) × 3–12 mm, tips acute, faces gray-woolly or tomentose. |
1-nerved, linear-oblanceolate, 16–18 × 1.5–2 mm, tips acute, faces ± gray-tomentose. |
Cauline leaves | linear, 5–40 mm, mid and distal flagged. |
linear or oblanceolate, 7–15 mm, not flagged. |
Involucres | staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. |
staminate 6–7 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–4 mm. |
staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 5–7 mm. |
Phyllaries | (proximally light brown, dark brown, or olivaceous) distally whitish or light brown. |
(relatively wide) distally brown to blackish or whitish. |
Heads | 3–9 in corymbiform arrays. |
borne singly. |
Cypselae | 1–1.6 mm, glabrous; pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm. |
2–3 mm, papillate; pappi: staminate 3.5–4.5 mm; pistillate 6–8 mm. |
2n | = 28 (under A. neodioica). |
= 28. |
Antennaria lanata |
Antennaria flagellaris |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering mid–late spring. |
Habitat | Protected alpine and subalpine sites, gravelly or sandy soils near conifers at timberline | Seasonally dry basins in foothills of mountains, often associated with sagebrush flats |
Elevation | 1400–3400 m (4600–11200 ft) | 900–2700 m (3000–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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CA; ID; NV; OR; SD; WA; WY; BC
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Discussion | Antennaria flagellaris is among the more distinctive species of Antennaria, with its flagelliform stolons (whiplike with leaves only at the very end) and heads borne singly. It belongs to the Dimorphae group (R. J. Bayer 1990; Bayer et al. 1996). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 399. | FNA vol. 19, p. 399. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria |
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Synonyms | A. carpatica var. lanata | A. dimorpha var. flagellaris |
Name authority | (Hooker) Greene: Pittonia 3: 288. (1898) | (A. Gray) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 212. (1882) |
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