Antennaria rosea |
Antennaria luzuloides |
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Antennaire rosée, rosy everlasting, rosy pussytoes |
rush or silvery brown pussytoes, rush pussytoes, silvery brown everlasting, silvery-brown pussytoes, small-flower everlasting, small-flower fiddleneck, woodrush pussy-toes |
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Habit | Gynoecious (staminate plants uncommon). | Dioecious. | ||||||||||||||||
Plants | 4–30 cm. |
7–35(–70) cm (often viviparous in late season, bearing propagules in distal and, sometimes, proximal leaf axils, sometimes woody at bases). |
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Stolons | 1–7 cm. |
none. |
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Basal leaves | 1-nerved, 8–40 × 2–10 mm, spatulate, oblanceolate, or cuneate, tips mucronate, faces usually gray-pubescent, adaxial sometimes green-glabrous. |
1–3-nerved, linear to narrowly spatulate, 18–55 × 1–10 mm, tips acuminate, faces gray-tomentose. |
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Cauline leaves | linear, 6–36 mm, usually not flagged (apices acute to subulate or with lanceolate flags). |
narrowly oblanceolate to linear, 5–60 mm, flagged. |
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Involucres | staminate unknown; pistillate 4–10 mm. |
staminate 3.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–6.5 mm. |
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Corollas | staminate unknown; pistillate 2.5–6 mm. |
staminate 2.5–4 mm; pistillate 2–4 mm. |
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Phyllaries | distally brown, cream, gray, green, pink, red, white, or yellow (apices acute or erose-obtuse). |
(relatively narrow, proximally green or golden brown, glabrous) distally white, acute. |
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Heads | 3–20 in corymbiform arrays. |
10–110+ in racemiform to paniculiform or corymbiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 0.7–1.8 mm, glabrous or papillate; pappi: staminate unknown; pistillate 3.5–6.5 mm. |
1–2 mm, sparingly papillate or papillate-strigose (hairs clavate); pappi: staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–4 mm. |
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2n | = 42, 56, (70). |
= 28. |
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Antennaria rosea |
Antennaria luzuloides |
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Distribution |
AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; ME; MI; MN; MT; ND; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NL; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT
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CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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Discussion | Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora). Antennaria rosea is the most widespread Antennaria of North America, occurring in dry to moist habitats from near sea level to the alpine zone. The A. rosea polyploid agamic complex is one of the more morphologically diverse complexes of North American Antennaria. It occurs from the western cordillera of North America from southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico north to subarctic Alaska and east to Greenland and, disjunctly, in the Canadian maritime provinces, eastern Quebec, and immediately north of and adjacent to Lake Superior (R. J. Bayer et al. 1991). Antennaria chilensis (including A. chilensis var. magellanica) is a Patagonian endemic that morphologically fits within the circumscription of A. rosea and may well be an amphitropical disjunct member of the complex. Antennaria rosea is taxonomically confusing; it includes agamospermous microspecies that have been recognized as distinct taxonomic species. Morphometric and isozyme analyses have demonstrated that the primary source of morphologic variability in the complex derives from six sexually reproducing progenitors, A. aromatica, A. corymbosa, A. pulchella, A. microphylla, A. racemosa, and A. umbrinella (R. J. Bayer 1989b, 1990b, 1990c). Additionally, three other sexually reproducing species, A. marginata, A. suffrutescens, and A. rosulata, may have contributed to the genetic complexity of the A. rosea complex (Bayer 1990b). Here, four reasonably distinct subspecies are recognized within the complex. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
subspecies 2 (2 in the flora) Some authors have recognized Antennaria microcephala (= A. luzuloides subsp. aberrans) as a distinct species. Given the intergradation between A. luzuloides in the strict sense and A. microcephala in the strict sense, one species with two subspecies seems justified. Perhaps the most significant difference between the subspecies is ecologic. Antennaria luzuloides is a member of the Argenteae group. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 408. | FNA vol. 19, p. 397. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | ||||||||||||||||
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Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 3: 281. (1898) | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 430. (1843) | ||||||||||||||||
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