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woolly everlasting, woolly pussy-toes

narrow-leaf pussytoes, narrowleaf everlasting

Habit Dioecious. Dioecious.
Plants

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

(3–)10–15 cm.

Stolons

none.

none.

Basal leaves

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

1-nerved, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 15–50 × 1–2(–4) mm, tips acute, not flagged, faces ± gray tomentose.

Cauline leaves

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

(gradually reduced distally) narrowly linear, 5–60 mm, distalmost flagged.

Involucres

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

staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 4–6.5 mm.

Corollas

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

staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–4 mm.

Phyllaries

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

distally light brown, dingy brown, or olivaceous (apices acute-acuminate).

Heads

3–9 in corymbiform arrays.

2–8(–10) in subcapitate arrays.

Cypselae

1–1.6 mm, glabrous;

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

1–1.8 mm, glandular-puberulent;

pappi: staminate 3–4.5 mm (bristles barbellate at tips); pistillate 3–4.5 mm.

2n

= 28 (under A. neodioica).

= 56.

Antennaria lanata

Antennaria stenophylla

Phenology Flowering summer. Flowering in late spring–early summer.
Habitat Protected alpine and subalpine sites, gravelly or sandy soils near conifers at timberline Dry, often sagebrush (Artemisia) covered hillsides and dry margins around seasonally moist depressions in sagebrush steppe of the Great Basin and Columbia Plateau
Elevation 1400–3400 m (4600–11200 ft) 1500–2300 m (4900–7500 ft)
Distribution
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CA; ID; MT; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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ID; NV; OR; WA
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Discussion

Antennaria stenophylla is a xerophyte in the Argenteae group. It is distinguished by relatively narrow leaves, heads in subcapitate clusters, and light brown, dingy brown, or olivaceous phyllary tips.

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

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 399. FNA vol. 19, p. 398.
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. plantaginifolia, A. pulchella, A. pulcherrima, A. racemosa, A. rosea, A. rosulata, A. soliceps, A. solitaria, A. suffrutescens, A. umbrinella, A. virginica
Synonyms A. carpatica var. lanata A. alpina var. stenophylla, A. leucophaea
Name authority (Hooker) Greene: Pittonia 3: 288. (1898) (A. Gray) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 213. (1882)
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