Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria arcuata |
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evergreen everlasting, evergreen pussytoes, everlasting pussytoes, shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting |
box pussytoes, meadow pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 5–12 cm (densely tufted, bases woody; root crowns relatively slender). |
5–15(–20) cm (stems woolly). |
Stolons | none. |
4–10 cm (arched). |
Basal leaves | absent at flowering. |
1–3-nerved, narrowly to broadly spatulate, or narrowly rhombic-obovate, 20–45 × 3–15 mm, tips mucronate, faces densely white-woolly. |
Cauline leaves | spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, not flagged (apices emarginate or obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green). |
linear, (2–)5–40 mm, not flagged. |
Involucres | staminate 5–9 mm; pistillate 10–15 mm. |
staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6(–7) mm. |
Corollas | staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. |
staminate 2.5–4 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm. |
Phyllaries | (relatively wide) distally white. |
distally whitish (mostly staminate) or grayish stramineous to light brown. |
Heads | borne singly. |
(4–)7–25, in racemiform to paniculiform or corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 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 4–6 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria arcuata |
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Phenology | Flowering early summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Dry, open coniferous woods or barren slopes on serpentine | Moist alkaline basins in sagebrush steppe |
Elevation | 500–1600 m (1600–5200 ft) | 1500–2300 m (4900–7500 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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ID; NV; WY
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Discussion | 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 arcuata is known from three widely disjunct areas in Blaine County, Idaho; Elko County, Nevada; and Fremont County, Wyoming (R. J. Bayer 1992). It is characterized by arching stolons and white-woolly indument (Bayer) and is not easily confused with other species of Antennaria. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 408. | FNA vol. 19, p. 396. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 3: 277. (1898) | Cronquist: Leafl. W. Bot. 6: 41. (1950) |
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