Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria corymbosa |
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little-leaf pussytoes, pink pussytoes, rosy pussytoes, small pussytoes, white pussytoes |
flat-top pussytoes, meadow pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 9–30 cm (stems stipitate-glandular distally). |
6–15 cm. |
Stolons | 1–5 cm. |
1–10 cm. |
Basal leaves | 1-nerved, spatulate, 6–16 × 2–6 mm, tips mucronate, faces silvery gray-pubescent. |
1-nerved, spatulate, 18–45 × 2–4 mm, tips mucronate, faces ± gray-tomentose. |
Cauline leaves | linear, 5–25 mm, not flagged (apices acute). |
linear, 8–13 mm, not flagged (apices acuminate). |
Involucres | staminate 5–6.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–7 mm. |
staminate 4–5.3 mm; pistillate 4–5 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 2.5–3 mm; pistillate 3–4.3 mm. |
staminate 2–3.2 mm; pistillate 2.5–3.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally bright white to light yellow. |
(bases each with distinct dark brown or blackish spot) distally white or light brown. |
Heads | 6–13 in corymbiform arrays. |
3–7 in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 0.7–1.2 mm, glabrous or sparingly papillate; pappi: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–5 mm. |
0.5–1 mm, slightly papillate; pappi: staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria corymbosa |
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Phenology | Flowering early–mid summer. | Flowering early–mid summer. |
Habitat | Moist open areas, flood plains of streams, margins of alkaline depressions, lower montane to subalpine (subarctic) | Moist subalpine-alpine willow thickets in the Rocky and Cascade mountains, the Sierra Nevada and mountains of the Great Basin |
Elevation | 0–3200 m (0–10500 ft) | 1900–3500 m (6200–11500 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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CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; 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 corymbosa is characterized by linear-oblanceolate basal leaves and white-tipped phyllaries, each with a distinct black spot near the base of the scarious portion. A form with black phyllaries (A. acuta) occurs sporadically throughout the range of the species (R. J. Bayer 1988). Antennaria corymbosa is a sexual progenitor of the A. rosea complex. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 407. | FNA vol. 19, p. 407. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria |
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Synonyms | A. bracteosa, A. microphylla var. solstitialis, A. nitida, A. rosea var. nitida, A. solstitialis | A. acuta, A. dioica var. corymbosa, A. hygrophila, A. nardina |
Name authority | Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 303. (1897) | E. E. Nelson: Bot. Gaz. 27: 212. (1899) |
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