Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria arcuata |
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little-leaf pussytoes, pink pussytoes, rosy pussytoes, small pussytoes, white pussytoes |
box pussytoes, meadow pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 9–30 cm (stems stipitate-glandular distally). |
5–15(–20) cm (stems woolly). |
Stolons | 1–5 cm. |
4–10 cm (arched). |
Basal leaves | 1-nerved, spatulate, 6–16 × 2–6 mm, tips mucronate, faces silvery gray-pubescent. |
1–3-nerved, narrowly to broadly spatulate, or narrowly rhombic-obovate, 20–45 × 3–15 mm, tips mucronate, faces densely white-woolly. |
Cauline leaves | linear, 5–25 mm, not flagged (apices acute). |
linear, (2–)5–40 mm, not flagged. |
Involucres | staminate 5–6.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–7 mm. |
staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6(–7) mm. |
Corollas | staminate 2.5–3 mm; pistillate 3–4.3 mm. |
staminate 2.5–4 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally bright white to light yellow. |
distally whitish (mostly staminate) or grayish stramineous to light brown. |
Heads | 6–13 in corymbiform arrays. |
(4–)7–25, in racemiform to paniculiform or corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 0.7–1.2 mm, glabrous or sparingly papillate; pappi: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–5 mm. |
1–1.8 mm, glabrous; pappi: staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 4–6 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria arcuata |
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Phenology | Flowering early–mid summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Moist open areas, flood plains of streams, margins of alkaline depressions, lower montane to subalpine (subarctic) | Moist alkaline basins in sagebrush steppe |
Elevation | 0–3200 m (0–10500 ft) | 1500–2300 m (4900–7500 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MN; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT
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ID; NV; WY
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Discussion | Antennaria microphylla is a primary sexual progenitor of the A. rosea polyploid agamic complex (R. J. Bayer 1990b). A. Cronquist (1955) included A. rosea within his circumscription of A. microphylla. It is preferable to recognize sexual diploids as distinct from their morphologically discrete hybrid apomictic derivatives. Antennaria microphylla is always dioecious and has stems distally stipitate-glandular and white phyllaries; A. rosea is always gynoecious and has stems without glandular hairs and phyllaries only occasionally white. Some authors (A. E. Porsild 1950; E. H. Moss 1959; Porsild and W. J. Cody 1980) have recognized A. nitida as distinct; comparisons of the nomenclatural types of the two show that they are conspecific. Antennaria microphylla has allelopathic properties (G. D. Manners and D. S. Galitz 1985). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Antennaria arcuata is known from three widely disjunct areas in Blaine County, Idaho; Elko County, Nevada; and Fremont County, Wyoming (R. J. Bayer 1992). It is characterized by arching stolons and white-woolly indument (Bayer) and is not easily confused with other species of Antennaria. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 407. | FNA vol. 19, p. 396. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. bracteosa, A. microphylla var. solstitialis, A. nitida, A. rosea var. nitida, A. solstitialis | |
Name authority | Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 303. (1897) | Cronquist: Leafl. W. Bot. 6: 41. (1950) |
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