Antennaria neglecta |
Antennaria suffrutescens |
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Antennaire négligée, field pussytoes |
evergreen everlasting, evergreen pussytoes, everlasting pussytoes, shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 4–25 cm. |
5–12 cm (densely tufted, bases woody; root crowns relatively slender). |
Stolons | 2.5–18 cm. |
none. |
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). |
absent at flowering. |
Cauline leaves | linear, 1.5–25 mm, distal flagged. |
spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, not flagged (apices emarginate or obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green). |
Involucres | staminate 4–7 mm; pistillate 6–10 mm. |
staminate 5–9 mm; pistillate 10–15 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 2.7–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5(–7) mm. |
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. |
Phyllaries | distally white. |
(relatively wide) distally white. |
Heads | (1–)2–8 in corymbiform to spiciform or racemiform arrays. |
borne singly. |
Cypselae | 0.9–1.4 mm, minutely papillate; pappi: staminate 3.5–6.5 mm; pistillate 6–8.5(–9.5) mm. |
1–2 mm, papillate; pappi: staminate 4.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Antennaria neglecta |
Antennaria suffrutescens |
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Phenology | Flowering early–mid spring. | Flowering early summer. |
Habitat | Plains, grasslands, pastures, and open woodlands | Dry, open coniferous woods or barren slopes on serpentine |
Elevation | 0–2500 m (0–8200 ft) | 500–1600 m (1600–5200 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; OR
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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 suffrutescens is characterized by suffrutescent growth form, relatively small, emarginate, adaxially glabrous, coriaceous leaves, and relatively large heads borne singly. It is known only from serpentine soils in open montane pine forests in Curry and Josephine counties, Oregon, and neighboring Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987). Antennaria suffrutescens may have contributed to the origin of some of the clones of the A. rosea complex (e.g., J. T. Howell 27718, NY). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 403. | FNA vol. 19, p. 408. |
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 | |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 3: 173. (1897) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 277. (1898) |
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