Antennaria rosea |
Antennaria parlinii |
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Antennaire rosée, rosy everlasting, rosy pussytoes |
Parlin's pussytoes |
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Habit | Gynoecious (staminate plants uncommon). | Dioecious or gynoecious (staminate plants in equal frequencies as pistillates or none in populations, respectively). | ||||||||||||||||
Plants | 4–30 cm. |
12–35(–45) cm. |
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Stolons | 1–7 cm. |
3.5–11(–14) cm (mostly decumbent when young). |
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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. |
3–5-nerved, obovate-spatulate, obovate, rhombic-obovate, or suborbiculate, 30–95 × 12–45 mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent to floccose-glabrescent. |
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Cauline leaves | linear, 6–36 mm, usually not flagged (apices acute to subulate or with lanceolate flags). |
oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–45 mm, distalmost flagged. |
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Involucres | staminate unknown; pistillate 4–10 mm. |
staminate 6–9 mm; pistillate (7–)8–13 mm. |
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Corollas | staminate unknown; pistillate 2.5–6 mm. |
staminate 3.5–5 mm; pistillate 4–7 mm. |
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Phyllaries | distally brown, cream, gray, green, pink, red, white, or yellow (apices acute or erose-obtuse). |
distally white. |
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Heads | 3–20 in corymbiform arrays. |
4–12(–15) in tight 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, minutely papillate; pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. |
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2n | = 42, 56, (70). |
= 56, 84, 70, 112. |
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Antennaria rosea |
Antennaria parlinii |
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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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AL; AR; CT; DE; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; MB; NB; NS; ON; QC
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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). The Antennaria parlinii complex consists of two fairly distinct subspecies that differ in induments of basal leaves (tomentose in subsp. fallax; glabrous in subsp. parlinii) and other characters (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1982). Antennaria parlinii is the most common eastern North American species (Bayer and Stebbins 1982, 1983). This complex of polyploid sexual and apomictic populations is the result of multiple hybridizations among sexual diploid species including A. plantaginifolia, A. racemosa, and A. solitaria (Bayer 1985b; Bayer and D. J. Crawford 1986). A. Cronquist (1945; H. A. Gleason and Cronquist 1991) included A. parlinii within his circumscription of A. plantaginifolia. By not including the hybrid polyploiid within the circumscription of a single one of its sexual progenitors, the circumscription here better portrays the evolutionary relationships between A. parlinii and its sexual progenitors. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 408. | FNA vol. 19, p. 402. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | ||||||||||||||||
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Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 3: 281. (1898) | Fernald: Gard. & Forest 10: 284. (1897) | ||||||||||||||||
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