Antennaria neglecta |
Antennaria dioica |
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Antennaire négligée, field pussytoes |
stoloniferous pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 4–25 cm. |
3–10 cm. |
Stolons | 2.5–18 cm. |
2–5 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 or rhombic-spatulate, 3–18 × 3–6 mm, tips mucronate, abaxial faces gray-tomentose, adaxial green-glabrous. |
Cauline leaves | linear, 1.5–25 mm, distal flagged. |
linear, 7–13 mm, not flagged (apices acute). |
Involucres | staminate 4–7 mm; pistillate 6–10 mm. |
staminate 5–6.5 mm; pistillate 5–7 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 2.7–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5(–7) mm. |
staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 4–5 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally white. |
distally dark pink to light pink or white. |
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, papillate; pappi: staminate 3.5–4.5 mm; pistillate 5–6 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Antennaria neglecta |
Antennaria dioica |
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Phenology | Flowering early–mid spring. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Plains, grasslands, pastures, and open woodlands | Dry slopes on tundra |
Elevation | 0–2500 m (0–8200 ft) | 0–600 m (0–2000 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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Alaska (Aleutian Islands); Eurasia |
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 dioica ranges from the British Isles to Japan and into the Aleutian Islands (R. J. Bayer 2000). It is characterized by glabrous adaxial leaf faces and distally pink or white phyllaries. The circumscription of A. dioica in North America has long been debated; A. marginata of southwestern states bears a remarkable similarity to A. dioica. DNA sequence data (Bayer et al. 1996) indicate that the two taxa are not sisters; they are only distantly related. They are allopatric. Antennaria dioica may be a sexual progenitor of the A. parvifolia complex. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 403. | FNA vol. 19, p. 406. |
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 | Gnaphalium dioicum, A. hyperborea, A. insularis |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 3: 173. (1897) | (Linnaeus) Gaertner: Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 410. (1791) |
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