Antennaria lanata
Antennaria pulcherrima
woolly everlasting, woolly pussy-toes
Antennaire magnifique, handsome pussytoes, showy pussytoes
3–20 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout).
(8–)30–65 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout).
none.
none.
3-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate, 10–60(–100) × 3–12 mm, tips acute, faces gray-woolly or tomentose.
3–5-nerved, spatulate to oblanceolate or lanceolate, 50–200 × 4–25 mm, tips acute, mucronate, faces gray-pubescent or silvery sericeous.
linear, 5–40 mm, mid and distal flagged.
linear, 8–140 mm, distal flagged or not.
staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
staminate 5–8 mm; pistillate 7–12 mm.
staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–4 mm.
staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 3–6 mm.
(proximally light brown, dark brown, or olivaceous) distally whitish or light brown.
distally black, dark brown, light brown, castaneous, or olivaceous.
3–9 in corymbiform arrays.
3–30 in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.
1–1.6 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm.
1–1.5 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate 4–6 mm; pistillate (5–)8–10 mm.
= 28 (under A. neodioica).
= 28, 56.
Antennaria lanata
Antennaria pulcherrima
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
Antennaria pulcherrima is characterized by relatively large basal leaves, rhizomatous growth, and dark-colored phyllaries, each with a relatively large black spot at the base (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Cauline leaves: distal usually flagged; corollas: staminate 3.5–5 mm; pistillate 4–6 mm; wet sites, willow thickets, subalpine or subarctic, Colorado to Alaska, e to Ontario, w Quebec | subsp. pulcherrima |
1. Cauline leaves: mostly not flagged (sometimes flagged near heads); corollas: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–4.3 mm; limestone near sea level, w Newfoundland, Anticosti Island | subsp. eucosma |
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