Antennaria suffrutescens
Antennaria pulcherrima
evergreen everlasting, evergreen pussytoes, everlasting pussytoes, shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting
Antennaire magnifique, handsome pussytoes, showy pussytoes
5–12 cm (densely tufted, bases woody; root crowns relatively slender).
(8–)30–65 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout).
none.
none.
absent at flowering.
3–5-nerved, spatulate to oblanceolate or lanceolate, 50–200 × 4–25 mm, tips acute, mucronate, faces gray-pubescent or silvery sericeous.
spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, not flagged (apices emarginate or obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green).
linear, 8–140 mm, distal flagged or not.
staminate 5–9 mm; pistillate 10–15 mm.
staminate 5–8 mm; pistillate 7–12 mm.
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 3–6 mm.
(relatively wide) distally white.
distally black, dark brown, light brown, castaneous, or olivaceous.
borne singly.
3–30 in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.
1–2 mm, papillate;
pappi: staminate 4.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm.
1–1.5 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate 4–6 mm; pistillate (5–)8–10 mm.
= 28.
= 28, 56.
Antennaria suffrutescens
Antennaria pulcherrima
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.)
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
Antennaria pulcherrima is characterized by relatively large basal leaves, rhizomatous growth, and dark-colored phyllaries, each with a relatively large black spot at the base (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Cauline leaves: distal usually flagged; corollas: staminate 3.5–5 mm; pistillate 4–6 mm; wet sites, willow thickets, subalpine or subarctic, Colorado to Alaska, e to Ontario, w Quebec | subsp. pulcherrima |
1. Cauline leaves: mostly not flagged (sometimes flagged near heads); corollas: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–4.3 mm; limestone near sea level, w Newfoundland, Anticosti Island | subsp. eucosma |
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