Antennaria pulchella
Antennaria geyeri
beautiful pussy-toes, Sierra pussytoes
Geyer's everlasting mountain pussytoes, Geyer's pussytoes, pinewoods pussytoes
(1–)3–12 cm (stems usually stipitate-glandular).
3–14 cm (bases woody).
1–4(–9) cm.
none.
1-nerved, spatulate to linear-cuneate, 6–12 × 1.5–4.5 mm, tips mucronate, faces glabrescent-scabrous to gray-pubescent (often with purple glandular hairs).
absent at flowering.
linear, 3–11(–13) mm, usually not flagged (apices acute to acuminate), rarely distal flagged.
linear-lanceolate to cuneate-oblanceolate, 11–35 × 2–6 imm, acute, not flagged (apices acute), faces gray-pubescent.
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5 mm.
staminate 6–8 mm; pistillate 6–8 mm.
staminate 1.9–2.8 mm; pistillate 2–3 mm.
staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 5–6 mm.
(relatively wide) distally dark brown-black (sometimes light brown or whitish at very tips; apices blunt).
distally red to pink, light brown, or white.
4–6 in corymbiform arrays.
3–25 in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.
0.7–1.3 mm, glabrous or slightly papillate;
pappi: staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–3.5 mm.
2–2.5 mm, pubescent and papillate;
pappi: staminate 6–7 mm (capillary); pistillate 6–7 mm.
= 28 (as A. media).
= 28.
Antennaria pulchella
Antennaria geyeri
Antennaria pulchella is the diploid progenitor of A. media and, consequently, a progenitor of the A. alpina complex (R. J. Bayer 1990d). The A. rosea and A. parvifolia complexes also have the genome of A. pulchella, shown in the high elevation clones with dark phyllaries in these two polyploid complexes. Antennaria pulchella is differentiated from A. media by shorter pistillate or staminate corollas and shorter cauline leaves (Bayer). This sexually reproducing diploid ranges from the area around Lake Tahoe to the Mt. Whitney region (Bayer).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Antennaria geyeri is distinctive because it has woody upright branches and is not stoloniferous. It lacks basal leaves at flowering and has heads that are often described as subdioecious (central flowers are often bisexual). As the only member of the Geyerae group, A. geyeri is not closely related to any other species of Antennaria; it bears strong similarities to some species of Anaphalis (R. J. Bayer 1990; Bayer et al. 1996).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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