Antennaria parlinii
Antennaria anaphaloides
Parlin's pussytoes
pearly or handsome or tall pussytoes, pearly pussytoes, showy pussytoes, tall pussytoes
12–35(–45) cm.
15–35(–50) cm.
3.5–11(–14) cm (mostly decumbent when young).
none.
3–5-nerved, obovate-spatulate, obovate, rhombic-obovate, or suborbiculate, 30–95 × 12–45 mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent to floccose-glabrescent.
(ephemeral) 3–5-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 25–150(–200) × 4–20(–25) mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent.
oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–45 mm, distalmost flagged.
oblanceolate or linear, 10–80 mm, usually flagged.
staminate 6–9 mm; pistillate (7–)8–13 mm.
staminate (4–)5–6.5 mm; pistillate 4.5–7 mm.
staminate 3.5–5 mm; pistillate 4–7 mm.
staminate 2.5–4 mm; pistillate 3–4.5 mm.
distally white.
(each with dark brown or blackish spot in middle) distally white or cream (sometimes suffused pink to rose).
4–12(–15) in tight corymbiform arrays.
8–30(–50+) in corymbiform arrays.
1–2 mm, minutely papillate;
pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
1–1.8 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5(–5.5) mm.
= 56, 84, 70, 112.
= 28.
Antennaria parlinii
Antennaria anaphaloides
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.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Antennaria anaphaloides is native to the northern Rocky Mountains and is characterized by whitish phyllaries, each with a black spot at the base. Some morphologic overlap occurs between A. anaphaloides and A. pulcherrima; the two occur in different habitats: A. anaphaloides grows in dry meadows and aspen forest openings; A. pulcherrima is usually found in moist willow thickets along streams (K. M. Urbanska 1983). Antennaria anaphaloides is closely related to the other members of the Pulcherrimae group (R. J. Bayer 1990; Bayer et al. 1996).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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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