Antennaria pulchella
Antennaria pulcherrima
beautiful pussy-toes, Sierra pussytoes
Antennaire magnifique, handsome pussytoes, showy pussytoes
(1–)3–12 cm (stems usually stipitate-glandular).
(8–)30–65 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout).
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).
3–5-nerved, spatulate to oblanceolate or lanceolate, 50–200 × 4–25 mm, tips acute, mucronate, faces gray-pubescent or silvery sericeous.
linear, 3–11(–13) mm, usually not flagged (apices acute to acuminate), rarely distal flagged.
linear, 8–140 mm, distal flagged or not.
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5 mm.
staminate 5–8 mm; pistillate 7–12 mm.
staminate 1.9–2.8 mm; pistillate 2–3 mm.
staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 3–6 mm.
(relatively wide) distally dark brown-black (sometimes light brown or whitish at very tips; apices blunt).
distally black, dark brown, light brown, castaneous, or olivaceous.
4–6 in corymbiform arrays.
3–30 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.
1–1.5 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate 4–6 mm; pistillate (5–)8–10 mm.
= 28 (as A. media).
= 28, 56.
Antennaria pulchella
Antennaria pulcherrima
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).
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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).
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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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