Antennaria neglecta |
Antennaria marginata |
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Antennaire négligée, field pussytoes |
white margined pussytoes, white-margined everlasting, whitemargin pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious or gynoecious (staminate plants in equal frequency as pistillates or none in populations, respectively). |
Plants | 4–25 cm. |
5–20 cm (stems sometimes stipitate-glandular, especially in dioecious diploids). |
Stolons | 2.5–18 cm. |
2–7 cm (woolly). |
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). |
1–3-nerved, spatulate, 15–20 × 4–6 mm, tips mucronate, abaxial faces gray-tomentose, adaxial green-glabrous (margins white woolly). |
Cauline leaves | linear, 1.5–25 mm, distal flagged. |
linear, 7–16 mm, (apices acute) not flagged. |
Involucres | staminate 4–7 mm; pistillate 6–10 mm. |
staminate 4.5–7 mm; pistillate 5–7(–9) mm. |
Corollas | staminate 2.7–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5(–7) mm. |
staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally white. |
(relatively wide), distally white (apices acuminate). |
Heads | (1–)2–8 in corymbiform to spiciform or racemiform arrays. |
5–8 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. |
0.8–2 mm, glabrous or slightly papillate; pappi: staminate 3.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–8.5 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28, 56, 84, 112, 140. |
Antennaria neglecta |
Antennaria marginata |
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Phenology | Flowering early–mid spring. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Plains, grasslands, pastures, and open woodlands | Moist forests, slopes and tops of ridges under Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, Engelmann spruce or Gambel oaks, openings in the forests |
Elevation | 0–2500 m (0–8200 ft) | 1500–2900 m (4900–9500 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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AZ; CA; CO; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila)
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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 marginata has rims of white hairs (from the abaxial faces) around its adaxially glabrous leaves. It has both dioecious and gynoecious populations and cytotypes ranging from diploid to decaploid (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987). It is probably a primary sexual progenitor of the A. parvifolia polyploid complex; the two taxa sometimes overlap morphologically; they differ in induments of basal leaves. Antennaria marginata may also be a contributor to the parentage of the A. howellii and A. rosea agamic complexes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 403. | FNA vol. 19, p. 405. |
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. dioica var. marginata, A. fendleri, A. marginata var. glandulifera, A. peramoena |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 3: 173. (1897) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 290. (1898) |
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