Antennaria lanata
Antennaria friesiana
woolly everlasting, woolly pussy-toes
Antennaire de Fries, Fries' pussytoes
3–20 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout).
7–15 cm (stems stipitate-glandular, hairs purple).
none.
0.1–4 cm.
3-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate, 10–60(–100) × 3–12 mm, tips acute, faces gray-woolly or tomentose.
1-nerved, narrowly spatulate to oblanceolate, 11–30 × 2–4 mm, tips mucronate, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green-glabrescent to gray-pubescent.
linear, 5–40 mm, mid and distal flagged.
linear, 4–20 mm, flagged.
staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
staminate 4–6.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–8 mm.
staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–4 mm.
staminate 2.5–3 mm; pistillate 3–4.5 mm.
(proximally light brown, dark brown, or olivaceous) distally whitish or light brown.
distally usually black, light brown, dark brown, or olivaceous, sometimes.
3–9 in corymbiform arrays.
2–6 in corymbiform arrays.
1–1.6 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm.
1.2–2 mm, glabrous or slightly papillate;
pappi: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm.
= 28 (under A. neodioica).
= 28, 56, 63, 100+.
Antennaria lanata
Antennaria friesiana
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora).
The Antennaria friesiana complex consists of subsp. alaskana, subsp. neoalaskana, and subsp. friesiana, the former two are dioecious (sexual) phases of the latter gynoecious (asexual) form. The sexual populations are known from Alaska and cordilleran areas of northern Yukon and adjacent Northwest Territories (R. J. Bayer 1991). The apomictic phase is almost circumpolar, occurring from the central and eastern Siberian plateau eastward across the North American arctic to Greenland (Bayer). E. Hultén (1968) circumscribed a fourth subspecies, A. friesiana subsp. compacta. After studying its morphology, in the field and herbarium, it is apparent that Hultén’s taxon contains at least three incongruous entities that are probably not at all related to the other two subspecies of A. friesiana. Hultén’s subsp. compacta included A. densifolia, which is recognized as a distinct species, and A. crymophila and A. neoalaskana as taxonomic synonyms. Antennaria compacta in the strict sense and A. crymophila are perhaps hybrid apomicts and are treated here in A. alpina (see Bayer for details). Antennaria neoalaskana is treated here as a subspecies of A. friesiana.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Stolons 1–4 cm (usually prostrate, sometimes ascending, usually rooting at tips, plants forming mats); involucres: pistillate 7–8 mm | subsp. neoalaskana |
1. Stolons 0.5–1 cm (erect, usually not rooting at tips, plants not forming mats); involucres: pistillate 5.5–7 mm | → 2 |
2. Plants gynoecious (staminates unknown) | subsp. friesiana |
2. Plants dioecious (staminates and pistillates in equal frequencies in populations) | subsp. alaskana |
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