Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria corymbosa |
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evergreen everlasting, evergreen pussytoes, everlasting pussytoes, shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting |
flat-top pussytoes, meadow pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 5–12 cm (densely tufted, bases woody; root crowns relatively slender). |
6–15 cm. |
Stolons | none. |
1–10 cm. |
Basal leaves | absent at flowering. |
1-nerved, spatulate, 18–45 × 2–4 mm, tips mucronate, faces ± gray-tomentose. |
Cauline leaves | spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, not flagged (apices emarginate or obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green). |
linear, 8–13 mm, not flagged (apices acuminate). |
Involucres | staminate 5–9 mm; pistillate 10–15 mm. |
staminate 4–5.3 mm; pistillate 4–5 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. |
staminate 2–3.2 mm; pistillate 2.5–3.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | (relatively wide) distally white. |
(bases each with distinct dark brown or blackish spot) distally white or light brown. |
Heads | borne singly. |
3–7 in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 1–2 mm, papillate; pappi: staminate 4.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm. |
0.5–1 mm, slightly papillate; pappi: staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria corymbosa |
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Phenology | Flowering early summer. | Flowering early–mid summer. |
Habitat | Dry, open coniferous woods or barren slopes on serpentine | Moist subalpine-alpine willow thickets in the Rocky and Cascade mountains, the Sierra Nevada and mountains of the Great Basin |
Elevation | 500–1600 m (1600–5200 ft) | 1900–3500 m (6200–11500 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; 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 corymbosa is characterized by linear-oblanceolate basal leaves and white-tipped phyllaries, each with a distinct black spot near the base of the scarious portion. A form with black phyllaries (A. acuta) occurs sporadically throughout the range of the species (R. J. Bayer 1988). Antennaria corymbosa is a sexual progenitor of the A. rosea complex. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 408. | FNA vol. 19, p. 407. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. acuta, A. dioica var. corymbosa, A. hygrophila, A. nardina | |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 3: 277. (1898) | E. E. Nelson: Bot. Gaz. 27: 212. (1899) |
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