Antennaria umbrinella
Antennaria parlinii
brown pussytoes, brown-bract pussytoes, umber or brown or brown-bract pussytoes, umber pussytoes
Parlin's pussytoes
7–16 cm (bases somewhat woody).
12–35(–45) cm.
7–16 cm (usually erect, slightly woody).
3.5–11(–14) cm (mostly decumbent when young).
1-nerved, narrowly spatulate to cuneate, 10–17 × 2–5.4 mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-tomentose.
3–5-nerved, obovate-spatulate, obovate, rhombic-obovate, or suborbiculate, 30–95 × 12–45 mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent to floccose-glabrescent.
linear, 8–18 mm, not flagged (apices acute).
oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–45 mm, distalmost flagged.
staminate 3–6 mm; pistillate 4–6.5 mm.
staminate 6–9 mm; pistillate (7–)8–13 mm.
staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–3.5 mm.
staminate 3.5–5 mm; pistillate 4–7 mm.
distally whitish, yellowish, or pale brownish (often streaked with pink or rose).
distally white.
3–8 in corymbiform arrays.
4–12(–15) in tight corymbiform arrays.
0.5–1.2 mm, glabrous;
pappi: staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 3–5 mm.
1–2 mm, minutely papillate;
pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
= 28, 56.
= 56, 84, 70, 112.
Antennaria umbrinella
Antennaria parlinii
Antennaria umbrinella is a primary sexual progenitor of the A. rosea complex (R. J. Bayer 1990b). It is characterized by somewhat erect, slightly woody stolons and phyllaries that are usually various shades of brown, sometimes white, or streaked with pink or rose (Bayer 1987b).
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Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
The Antennaria parlinii complex consists of two fairly distinct subspecies that differ in induments of basal leaves (tomentose in subsp. fallax; glabrous in subsp. parlinii) and other characters (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1982). Antennaria parlinii is the most common eastern North American species (Bayer and Stebbins 1982, 1983). This complex of polyploid sexual and apomictic populations is the result of multiple hybridizations among sexual diploid species including A. plantaginifolia, A. racemosa, and A. solitaria (Bayer 1985b; Bayer and D. J. Crawford 1986). A. Cronquist (1945; H. A. Gleason and Cronquist 1991) included A. parlinii within his circumscription of A. plantaginifolia. By not including the hybrid polyploiid within the circumscription of a single one of its sexual progenitors, the circumscription here better portrays the evolutionary relationships between A. parlinii and its sexual progenitors.
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1. Stems usually glandless; basal leaves adaxially tomentose | subsp. fallax |
1. Stems usually with purple glandular hairs (at least near summits of young flowering stems); basal leaves adaxially green-glabrous | subsp. parlinii |
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