Antennaria neglecta
Antennaria parlinii
Antennaire négligée, field pussytoes
Parlin's pussytoes
4–25 cm.
12–35(–45) cm.
2.5–18 cm.
3.5–11(–14) cm (mostly decumbent when young).
1-nerved, narrowly spatulate to cuneate-oblanceolate, 15–65 × 6–18 mm, tips mucronate, faces abaxially tomentose, adaxially gray-pubescent (green-glabrescent with age).
3–5-nerved, obovate-spatulate, obovate, rhombic-obovate, or suborbiculate, 30–95 × 12–45 mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent to floccose-glabrescent.
linear, 1.5–25 mm, distal flagged.
oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–45 mm, distalmost flagged.
staminate 4–7 mm; pistillate 6–10 mm.
staminate 6–9 mm; pistillate (7–)8–13 mm.
staminate 2.7–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5(–7) mm.
staminate 3.5–5 mm; pistillate 4–7 mm.
distally white.
distally white.
(1–)2–8 in corymbiform to spiciform or racemiform arrays.
4–12(–15) in tight corymbiform arrays.
0.9–1.4 mm, minutely papillate;
pappi: staminate 3.5–6.5 mm; pistillate 6–8.5(–9.5) mm.
1–2 mm, minutely papillate;
pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
= 28.
= 56, 84, 70, 112.
Antennaria neglecta
Antennaria parlinii
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).
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Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
The Antennaria parlinii complex consists of two fairly distinct subspecies that differ in induments of basal leaves (tomentose in subsp. fallax; glabrous in subsp. parlinii) and other characters (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1982). Antennaria parlinii is the most common eastern North American species (Bayer and Stebbins 1982, 1983). This complex of polyploid sexual and apomictic populations is the result of multiple hybridizations among sexual diploid species including A. plantaginifolia, A. racemosa, and A. solitaria (Bayer 1985b; Bayer and D. J. Crawford 1986). A. Cronquist (1945; H. A. Gleason and Cronquist 1991) included A. parlinii within his circumscription of A. plantaginifolia. By not including the hybrid polyploiid within the circumscription of a single one of its sexual progenitors, the circumscription here better portrays the evolutionary relationships between A. parlinii and its sexual progenitors.
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1. Stems usually glandless; basal leaves adaxially tomentose | subsp. fallax |
1. Stems usually with purple glandular hairs (at least near summits of young flowering stems); basal leaves adaxially green-glabrous | subsp. parlinii |
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