Antennaria parlinii
Antennaria soliceps
Parlin's pussytoes
Charleston Mountain or Charleston pussytoes, Charleston Mountain pussytoes
12–35(–45) cm.
1–4 cm.
3.5–11(–14) cm (mostly decumbent when young).
0.5–2 cm.
3–5-nerved, obovate-spatulate, obovate, rhombic-obovate, or suborbiculate, 30–95 × 12–45 mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent to floccose-glabrescent.
1-nerved, spatulate, rhombic-spatulate, or cuneate, 4–13 × 2–8 mm, tips mucronate, faces densely gray-tomentose.
oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–45 mm, distalmost flagged.
linear, 4–10 mm, distalmost flagged.
staminate 6–9 mm; pistillate (7–)8–13 mm.
staminate unknown; pistillate 8–11 mm.
staminate 3.5–5 mm; pistillate 4–7 mm.
staminate unknown; pistillate 4–5.5 mm.
distally white.
distally white, light brown, dark brown, or olivaceous.
4–12(–15) in tight corymbiform arrays.
usually borne singly, rarely 2–3 in corymbiform arrays.
1–2 mm, minutely papillate;
pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
1.5–1.8 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate unknown; pistillate 5–6 mm.
= 56, 84, 70, 112.
= ca. 168.
Antennaria parlinii
Antennaria soliceps
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 soliceps is a high-polyploid apomict known only from limestone talus at treeline in the Spring (Charleston) Mountains, Nevada (R. J. Bayer and T. M. Minish 1993). It is probably most closely related to A. aromatica, an amphimictic species occurring in the northern Rockies, and is characterized by a cushion-plant growth form and heads borne singly (Bayer and Minish).
(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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