Antennaria neglecta |
Antennaria howellii |
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Antennaire négligée, field pussytoes |
Antennaire de Howell, everlasting pussytoes, Howell's pussytoes, small pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Gynoecious (staminate plants very uncommon). | ||||||||||||
Plants | 4–25 cm. |
(6–)8–35 cm (stems sometimes stipitate-glandular). |
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Stolons | 2.5–18 cm. |
1–9(–12) cm. |
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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 to oblanceolate, spatulate-obovate, narrowly to broadly ovate, or cuneate-oblanceolate, 20–48(–65) × 2.5–20 mm, tips mucronate, faces abaxially tomentose, adaxially green-glabrous or gray-pubescent. |
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Cauline leaves | linear, 1.5–25 mm, distal flagged. |
linear, 8–40 mm, distal sometimes flagged (apices acute). |
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Involucres | staminate 4–7 mm; pistillate 6–10 mm. |
staminate 6–6.5 mm; pistillate 6–11 mm. |
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Corollas | staminate 2.7–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5(–7) mm. |
staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3.5–6.5(–8) mm. |
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Phyllaries | distally white. |
(bases sometimes rose) distally white, cream, or light brown. |
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Heads | (1–)2–8 in corymbiform to spiciform or racemiform arrays. |
3–15 in corymbiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 0.9–1.4 mm, minutely papillate; pappi: staminate 3.5–6.5 mm; pistillate 6–8.5(–9.5) mm. |
0.8–2 mm, ± papillate; pappi: staminate 4–4.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–9 mm. |
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2n | = 28. |
= 56, 84, 140 (under A. neodioica). |
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Antennaria neglecta |
Antennaria howellii |
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Phenology | Flowering early–mid spring. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Plains, grasslands, pastures, and open woodlands | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 0–2500 m (0–8200 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; CT; DE; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; SD; TN; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK; YT
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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.) |
Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora). The Antennaria howellii (previously A. neodioica) polyploid complex is highly variable morphologically; four more or less distinct subspecies can be recognized within it. The sexual progenitors of the complex are A. neglecta, A. plantaginifolia, A. racemosa, and A. virginica (see R. J. Bayer 1985). Antennaria marginata may also be a minor contributor to the origins of the complex. A. Cronquist (H. A. Gleason and Cronquist 1991) included members of this complex in A. neglecta; I maintain, because these apomicts are of hybrid polyploid origin from among multiple sexual progenitors, they best not be included within the circumscription of any one sexual progenitor (Bayer 1989d). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 403. | FNA vol. 19, p. 403. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | ||||||||||||
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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. neglecta subsp. howellii, A. neglecta var. howellii, A. neodioica subsp. howellii | ||||||||||||
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 3: 173. (1897) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 174. (1897) | ||||||||||||
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