Antennaria pulchella
Antennaria suffrutescens
beautiful pussy-toes, Sierra pussytoes
evergreen everlasting, evergreen pussytoes, everlasting pussytoes, shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting
(1–)3–12 cm (stems usually stipitate-glandular).
5–12 cm (densely tufted, bases woody; root crowns relatively slender).
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.
spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, not flagged (apices emarginate or obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green).
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5 mm.
staminate 5–9 mm; pistillate 10–15 mm.
staminate 1.9–2.8 mm; pistillate 2–3 mm.
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
(relatively wide) distally dark brown-black (sometimes light brown or whitish at very tips; apices blunt).
(relatively wide) distally white.
4–6 in corymbiform arrays.
borne singly.
0.7–1.3 mm, glabrous or slightly papillate;
pappi: staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–3.5 mm.
1–2 mm, papillate;
pappi: staminate 4.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm.
= 28 (as A. media).
= 28.
Antennaria pulchella
Antennaria suffrutescens
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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Antennaria suffrutescens is characterized by suffrutescent growth form, relatively small, emarginate, adaxially glabrous, coriaceous leaves, and relatively large heads borne singly. It is known only from serpentine soils in open montane pine forests in Curry and Josephine counties, Oregon, and neighboring Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987). Antennaria suffrutescens may have contributed to the origin of some of the clones of the A. rosea complex (e.g., J. T. Howell 27718, NY).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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