The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

woolly everlasting, woolly pussy-toes

Antennaire à feuilles de plantain, plantain-leaf pussytoes, woman's tobacco

Habit Dioecious. Dioecious.
Plants

3–20 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout).

6.5–20(–25) cm.

Stolons

none.

2.5–7.5 cm (mostly ascending when young).

Basal leaves

3-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate, 10–60(–100) × 3–12 mm, tips acute, faces gray-woolly or tomentose.

(petiolate) 3–5(–7)-nerved, obovate to suborbiculate, 35–75 × 15–35 mm, tips minutely mucronate, abaxially tomentose, adaxially green-glabrescent to gray-pubescent.

Cauline leaves

linear, 5–40 mm, mid and distal flagged.

linear, 6.5–35 mm, distal flagged.

Involucres

staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.

staminate 5–7(–8) mm; pistillate 5–7 mm.

Corollas

staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–4 mm.

staminate 2–3.5 mm; pistillate 3–4 mm.

Phyllaries

(proximally light brown, dark brown, or olivaceous) distally whitish or light brown.

distally white.

Heads

3–9 in corymbiform arrays.

4–17(–30) in tight corymbiform arrays.

Cypselae

1–1.6 mm, glabrous;

pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm.

0.5–1.6 mm, slightly papillate;

pappi: staminate 2.5–4 mm; pistillate 3.5–5.5 mm.

2n

= 28 (under A. neodioica).

= 28.

Antennaria lanata

Antennaria plantaginifolia

Phenology Flowering summer. Flowering mid–late spring.
Habitat Protected alpine and subalpine sites, gravelly or sandy soils near conifers at timberline Dry, open, deciduous woodlands, tops of banks, ridges, and bluffs, sandstone formations, slopes in openings in woodlands
Elevation 1400–3400 m (4600–11200 ft) 0–1500 m (0–4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; MT; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AL; AR; CT; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MN; MO; MS; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; MB; NB; NS; QC
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Antennaria plantaginifolia is a diploid progenitor of the A. parlinii complex and is similar to that species except for smaller heads and adaxially gray-pubescent basal leaves (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1982; Bayer 1985b; Bayer and D. J. Crawford 1986). It is a diploid ancestor of the A. howellii complex. It is found in the Appalachian region; disjunct populations occur in the driftless area of Wisconsin and Minnesota (Bayer and Stebbins).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 399. FNA vol. 19, p. 400.
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. 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. 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 Gnaphalium plantaginifolium, A. caroliniana, A. decipiens, A. denikeana, A. nemoralis, A. pinetorum, A. plantaginifolia var. petiolata
Name authority (Hooker) Greene: Pittonia 3: 288. (1898) (Linnaeus) Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 330. (1834)
Web links