Antennaria neglecta |
Antennaria corymbosa |
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Antennaire négligée, field pussytoes |
flat-top pussytoes, meadow pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 4–25 cm. |
6–15 cm. |
Stolons | 2.5–18 cm. |
1–10 cm. |
Basal leaves | 1-nerved, narrowly spatulate to cuneate-oblanceolate, 15–65 × 6–18 mm, tips mucronate, faces abaxially tomentose, adaxially gray-pubescent (green-glabrescent with age). |
1-nerved, spatulate, 18–45 × 2–4 mm, tips mucronate, faces ± gray-tomentose. |
Cauline leaves | linear, 1.5–25 mm, distal flagged. |
linear, 8–13 mm, not flagged (apices acuminate). |
Involucres | staminate 4–7 mm; pistillate 6–10 mm. |
staminate 4–5.3 mm; pistillate 4–5 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 2.7–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5(–7) mm. |
staminate 2–3.2 mm; pistillate 2.5–3.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally white. |
(bases each with distinct dark brown or blackish spot) distally white or light brown. |
Heads | (1–)2–8 in corymbiform to spiciform or racemiform arrays. |
3–7 in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 0.9–1.4 mm, minutely papillate; pappi: staminate 3.5–6.5 mm; pistillate 6–8.5(–9.5) mm. |
0.5–1 mm, slightly papillate; pappi: staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Antennaria neglecta |
Antennaria corymbosa |
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Phenology | Flowering early–mid spring. | Flowering early–mid summer. |
Habitat | Plains, grasslands, pastures, and open woodlands | Moist subalpine-alpine willow thickets in the Rocky and Cascade mountains, the Sierra Nevada and mountains of the Great Basin |
Elevation | 0–2500 m (0–8200 ft) | 1900–3500 m (6200–11500 ft) |
Distribution |
AR; CO; CT; DE; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MT; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SD; VA; VT; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NS; NT; ON; QC; SK
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CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY
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Discussion | Antennaria neglecta is a sexual progenitor of both the A. howellii and A. parvifolia polyploid complexes and has one of the more widespread ranges among the amphimictic species in the genus in North America. Amphimicts generally have small ranges compared to those of the polyploid agamic complexes derived from them. Characteristic features of A. neglecta are its lashlike stolons that bear reduced leaves (except at the ends), flags on the distal cauline leaves, and basal leaves that are green-glabrescent with age (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1982). (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. 403. | FNA vol. 19, p. 407. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. athabascensis, A. campestris, A. campestris var. athabascensis, A. chelonica, A. erosa, A. howellii var. athabascensis, A. howellii var. campestris, A. longifolia, A. lunellii, A. nebrascensis, A. neglecta var. athabascensis, A. neglecta var. campestris, A. neglecta var. simplex, A. parvula, A. wilsonii | A. acuta, A. dioica var. corymbosa, A. hygrophila, A. nardina |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 3: 173. (1897) | E. E. Nelson: Bot. Gaz. 27: 212. (1899) |
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