Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria geyeri |
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little-leaf pussytoes, pink pussytoes, rosy pussytoes, small pussytoes, white pussytoes |
Geyer's everlasting mountain pussytoes, Geyer's pussytoes, pinewoods pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 9–30 cm (stems stipitate-glandular distally). |
3–14 cm (bases woody). |
Stolons | 1–5 cm. |
none. |
Basal leaves | 1-nerved, spatulate, 6–16 × 2–6 mm, tips mucronate, faces silvery gray-pubescent. |
absent at flowering. |
Cauline leaves | linear, 5–25 mm, not flagged (apices acute). |
linear-lanceolate to cuneate-oblanceolate, 11–35 × 2–6 imm, acute, not flagged (apices acute), faces gray-pubescent. |
Involucres | staminate 5–6.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–7 mm. |
staminate 6–8 mm; pistillate 6–8 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 2.5–3 mm; pistillate 3–4.3 mm. |
staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 5–6 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally bright white to light yellow. |
distally red to pink, light brown, or white. |
Heads | 6–13 in corymbiform arrays. |
3–25 in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 0.7–1.2 mm, glabrous or sparingly papillate; pappi: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–5 mm. |
2–2.5 mm, pubescent and papillate; pappi: staminate 6–7 mm (capillary); pistillate 6–7 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria geyeri |
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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) | Dry lower montane to montane coniferous forests, usually in ± thick duff under Pinus ponderosa |
Elevation | 0–3200 m (0–10500 ft) | 600–2400 m (2000–7900 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; NV; OR; WA
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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 geyeri is distinctive because it has woody upright branches and is not stoloniferous. It lacks basal leaves at flowering and has heads that are often described as subdioecious (central flowers are often bisexual). As the only member of the Geyerae group, A. geyeri is not closely related to any other species of Antennaria; it bears strong similarities to some species of Anaphalis (R. J. Bayer 1990; Bayer et al. 1996). (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) | A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 107. (1849) |
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