Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria dimorpha |
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little-leaf pussytoes, pink pussytoes, rosy pussytoes, small pussytoes, white pussytoes |
cushion pussytoes, gray cushion pussytoes, low or two-form or cushion pussytoes, low pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 9–30 cm (stems stipitate-glandular distally). |
0.5–4 cm. |
Stolons | 1–5 cm. |
none. |
Basal leaves | 1-nerved, spatulate, 6–16 × 2–6 mm, tips mucronate, faces silvery gray-pubescent. |
1-nerved, linear to narrowly spatulate, 8–11 × 1–1.2 mm, tips acute, faces ± gray-tomentose. |
Cauline leaves | linear, 5–25 mm, not flagged (apices acute). |
linear or oblanceolate, 7–12 mm, not flagged (apices acute). |
Involucres | staminate 5–6.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–7 mm. |
staminate 6–8 mm; pistillate 10–11 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 2.5–3 mm; pistillate 3–4.3 mm. |
staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 8–10 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally bright white to light yellow. |
distally dingy brown (apices acute-acuminate). |
Heads | 6–13 in corymbiform arrays. |
borne singly. |
Cypselae | 0.7–1.2 mm, glabrous or sparingly papillate; pappi: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–5 mm. |
2–3.5 mm, pubescent; pappi: staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 10–12 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28, 56. |
Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria dimorpha |
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Phenology | Flowering early–mid summer. | Flowering early–mid spring. |
Habitat | Moist open areas, flood plains of streams, margins of alkaline depressions, lower montane to subalpine (subarctic) | Sagebrush steppe, plains, foothills of mountains |
Elevation | 0–3200 m (0–10500 ft) | 600–3400 m (2000–11200 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; NE; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK
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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 dimorpha is characterized by narrowly oblanceolate leaves and relatively large heads (borne singly). It is, perhaps, the most xerophytic of spring-blooming Antennaria species. It belongs to the Dimorphae group. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 407. | FNA vol. 19, p. 398. |
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 | Gnaphalium dimorphum, A. dimorpha var. integra, A. dimorpha var. macrocephala, A. dimorpha var. nuttallii, A. latisquama, A. macrocephala |
Name authority | Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 303. (1897) | (Nuttall) Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 431. (1843) |
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