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woolly everlasting, woolly pussy-toes

flagellate pussytoes, stoloniferous everlasting, stoloniferous pussy-toes, whip pussytoes

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

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
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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.)

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 399. FNA vol. 19, p. 399.
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. argentea, A. aromatica, A. corymbosa, A. densifolia, A. dimorpha, A. dioica, 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 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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