Antennaria suffrutescens
Antennaria anaphaloides
evergreen everlasting, evergreen pussytoes, everlasting pussytoes, shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting
pearly or handsome or tall pussytoes, pearly pussytoes, showy pussytoes, tall pussytoes
5–12 cm (densely tufted, bases woody; root crowns relatively slender).
15–35(–50) cm.
none.
none.
absent at flowering.
(ephemeral) 3–5-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 25–150(–200) × 4–20(–25) mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent.
spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, not flagged (apices emarginate or obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green).
oblanceolate or linear, 10–80 mm, usually flagged.
staminate 5–9 mm; pistillate 10–15 mm.
staminate (4–)5–6.5 mm; pistillate 4.5–7 mm.
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
staminate 2.5–4 mm; pistillate 3–4.5 mm.
(relatively wide) distally white.
(each with dark brown or blackish spot in middle) distally white or cream (sometimes suffused pink to rose).
borne singly.
8–30(–50+) in corymbiform arrays.
1–2 mm, papillate;
pappi: staminate 4.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm.
1–1.8 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5(–5.5) mm.
= 28.
= 28.
Antennaria suffrutescens
Antennaria anaphaloides
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.)
Antennaria anaphaloides is native to the northern Rocky Mountains and is characterized by whitish phyllaries, each with a black spot at the base. Some morphologic overlap occurs between A. anaphaloides and A. pulcherrima; the two occur in different habitats: A. anaphaloides grows in dry meadows and aspen forest openings; A. pulcherrima is usually found in moist willow thickets along streams (K. M. Urbanska 1983). Antennaria anaphaloides is closely related to the other members of the Pulcherrimae group (R. J. Bayer 1990; Bayer et al. 1996).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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