Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria suffrutescens |
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little-leaf pussytoes, pink pussytoes, rosy pussytoes, small pussytoes, white pussytoes |
evergreen everlasting, evergreen pussytoes, everlasting pussytoes, shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 9–30 cm (stems stipitate-glandular distally). |
5–12 cm (densely tufted, bases woody; root crowns relatively slender). |
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). |
spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, not flagged (apices emarginate or obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green). |
Involucres | staminate 5–6.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–7 mm. |
staminate 5–9 mm; pistillate 10–15 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 2.5–3 mm; pistillate 3–4.3 mm. |
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally bright white to light yellow. |
(relatively wide) distally white. |
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. |
1–2 mm, papillate; pappi: staminate 4.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Antennaria microphylla |
Antennaria suffrutescens |
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Phenology | Flowering early–mid summer. | Flowering early summer. |
Habitat | Moist open areas, flood plains of streams, margins of alkaline depressions, lower montane to subalpine (subarctic) | Dry, open coniferous woods or barren slopes on serpentine |
Elevation | 0–3200 m (0–10500 ft) | 500–1600 m (1600–5200 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; OR
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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 suffrutescens is characterized by suffrutescent growth form, relatively small, emarginate, adaxially glabrous, coriaceous leaves, and relatively large heads borne singly. It is known only from serpentine soils in open montane pine forests in Curry and Josephine counties, Oregon, and neighboring Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987). Antennaria suffrutescens may have contributed to the origin of some of the clones of the A. rosea complex (e.g., J. T. Howell 27718, NY). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 407. | FNA vol. 19, p. 408. |
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) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 277. (1898) |
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