Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria flagellaris |
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evergreen everlasting, evergreen pussytoes, everlasting pussytoes, shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting |
flagellate pussytoes, stoloniferous everlasting, stoloniferous pussy-toes, whip pussytoes |
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Habit | Dioecious. | Dioecious. |
Plants | 5–12 cm (densely tufted, bases woody; root crowns relatively slender). |
0.5–1.5 cm. |
Stolons | none. |
3–10 cm (leafless except tips, relatively slender). |
Basal leaves | absent at flowering. |
1-nerved, linear-oblanceolate, 16–18 × 1.5–2 mm, tips acute, faces ± gray-tomentose. |
Cauline leaves | spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, not flagged (apices emarginate or obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green). |
linear or oblanceolate, 7–15 mm, not flagged. |
Involucres | staminate 5–9 mm; pistillate 10–15 mm. |
staminate 6–7 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm. |
Corollas | staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. |
staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 5–7 mm. |
Phyllaries | (relatively wide) distally white. |
(relatively wide) distally brown to blackish or whitish. |
Heads | borne singly. |
borne singly. |
Cypselae | 1–2 mm, papillate; pappi: staminate 4.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm. |
2–3 mm, papillate; pappi: staminate 3.5–4.5 mm; pistillate 6–8 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Antennaria suffrutescens |
Antennaria flagellaris |
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Phenology | Flowering early summer. | Flowering mid–late spring. |
Habitat | Dry, open coniferous woods or barren slopes on serpentine | Seasonally dry basins in foothills of mountains, often associated with sagebrush flats |
Elevation | 500–1600 m (1600–5200 ft) | 900–2700 m (3000–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; ID; NV; OR; SD; WA; WY; BC
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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 flagellaris is among the more distinctive species of Antennaria, with its flagelliform stolons (whiplike with leaves only at the very end) and heads borne singly. It belongs to the Dimorphae group (R. J. Bayer 1990; Bayer et al. 1996). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 408. | FNA vol. 19, p. 399. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria | Asteraceae > tribe Gnaphalieae > Antennaria |
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Synonyms | A. dimorpha var. flagellaris | |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 3: 277. (1898) | (A. Gray) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 212. (1882) |
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