Antennaria pulchella
Antennaria racemosa
beautiful pussy-toes, Sierra pussytoes
Hooker's pussy-toes, raceme pussytoes, racemose pussytoes, slender pussy-toes
(1–)3–12 cm (stems usually stipitate-glandular).
12–50 cm (stems stipitate-glandular distally).
1–4(–9) cm.
3–8 cm.
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-nerved, elliptic to oblong, 30–100 × 10–40 mm, tips mucronate, abaxially tomentose, adaxially glabrous.
linear, 3–11(–13) mm, usually not flagged (apices acute to acuminate), rarely distal flagged.
linear, 10–30 mm, not flagged (apices obtuse to acute).
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5 mm.
staminate 4–8 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm.
staminate 1.9–2.8 mm; pistillate 2–3 mm.
staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–4 mm.
(relatively wide) distally dark brown-black (sometimes light brown or whitish at very tips; apices blunt).
(relatively wide) distally white or light brown (apices blunt).
4–6 in corymbiform arrays.
3–12 in loose, racemiform 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 or slightly papillate;
pappi: staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 4.5–7 mm.
= 28 (as A. media).
= 28.
Antennaria pulchella
Antennaria racemosa
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 racemosa is characterized by adaxially glabrous basal leaves and open, racemiform to paniculiform arrays of heads (R. J. Bayer 1985b). The young leaves have a slight odor of citronella when crushed. Antennaria racemosa has a pivotal sexual genome of the Catipes group and has contributed to the origin of clones in the A. howellii, A. parlinii, and A. rosea polyploid agamic complexes (Bayer 1985, 1985b, 1990b).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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