Antennaria neglecta
Antennaria pulcherrima
Antennaire négligée, field pussytoes
Antennaire magnifique, handsome pussytoes, showy pussytoes
4–25 cm.
(8–)30–65 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout).
2.5–18 cm.
none.
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, spatulate to oblanceolate or lanceolate, 50–200 × 4–25 mm, tips acute, mucronate, faces gray-pubescent or silvery sericeous.
linear, 1.5–25 mm, distal flagged.
linear, 8–140 mm, distal flagged or not.
staminate 4–7 mm; pistillate 6–10 mm.
staminate 5–8 mm; pistillate 7–12 mm.
staminate 2.7–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5(–7) mm.
staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 3–6 mm.
distally white.
distally black, dark brown, light brown, castaneous, or olivaceous.
(1–)2–8 in corymbiform to spiciform or racemiform arrays.
3–30 in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.
0.9–1.4 mm, minutely papillate;
pappi: staminate 3.5–6.5 mm; pistillate 6–8.5(–9.5) mm.
1–1.5 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate 4–6 mm; pistillate (5–)8–10 mm.
= 28.
= 28, 56.
Antennaria neglecta
Antennaria pulcherrima
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 2 (2 in the flora).
Antennaria pulcherrima is characterized by relatively large basal leaves, rhizomatous growth, and dark-colored phyllaries, each with a relatively large black spot at the base (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Cauline leaves: distal usually flagged; corollas: staminate 3.5–5 mm; pistillate 4–6 mm; wet sites, willow thickets, subalpine or subarctic, Colorado to Alaska, e to Ontario, w Quebec | subsp. pulcherrima |
1. Cauline leaves: mostly not flagged (sometimes flagged near heads); corollas: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–4.3 mm; limestone near sea level, w Newfoundland, Anticosti Island | subsp. eucosma |
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