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Antennaria alpina (L.) Gaertn.

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Some Antennaria names are based on early-generation interspecific hybrids, including:

Antennaria ×erigeroides Greene = A. corymbosa × A. racemosa

A. ×foliacea Greene = A. microphylla × A. racemosa

A. ×macounii Greene = A. media × A. umbrinella

A. ×oblancifolia E. E. Nelson = A. racemosa × A. umbrinella

A. ×rousseaui A. E. Porsild = ? A. alpina × A. rosea

Antennaria alpina is one of the more morphologically variable agamic complexes in the genus. Some taxonomists have argued that true Antennaria alpina does not occur in North America, because none of the North American material exactly matches the type of A. alpina, which is from Lapland (M. O. Malte 1934; A. E. Porsild 1965). If one uses a strict typological species concept, then this is true; I recognize that this species complex is composed of innumerable apomictic clones and am circumscribing a broad species concept for A. alpina. The potential morphologic overlap between the A. media and A. alpina complexes is a major taxonomic problem. The chief difference between members of the two complexes is the presence of prominent flags on cauline leaves in A. alpina and their absence in A. media. Antennaria alpina of North America is gynoecious and characterized by its dark green to black phyllaries and conspicuous flags on the distal cauline leaves. The basal leaves vary from glabrous, as in the type material, to pubescent. The primary progenitors of the A. alpina complex include A. aromatica, A. densifolia, A. friesiana subsp. alaskana, A. friesiana subsp. neoalaskana, A. monocephala subsp. monocephala, and A. pulchella.

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Gynoecious (staminate plants uncommon). Plants 3–18 cm. Stolons 1–7 cm. Basal leaves: 1-nerved, spatulate to oblanceolate, 6–25 × 2–7 mm, tips mucronate, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green-glabrescent to gray-pubescent. Cauline leaves linear, 5–20 mm, at least mid and distal flagged. Heads 2–5 in corymbiform arrays. Involucres: staminate 5–6.5 mm; pistillate 4–7(–10) mm. Phyllaries distally dark brown, black, or olivaceous. Corollas: staminate 3–3.5 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm. Cypselae 1–1.8 mm, sparingly papillate; pappi: staminate 3.5–4 mm; pistillate 4.5–6 mm. 2n = 56, 84, 98, 112.
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Gnaphalium alpinum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 856. 1753; Antennaria alpina subsp. canescens (Lange) Chmielewski; A. alpina subsp. porsildii (E. Ekman) Chmielewski; A. alpina var. cana Fernald & Wiegand; A. alpina var. canescens Lange; A. alpina var. compacta (Malte) S. L. Welsh; A. alpina var. glabrata J. Vahl; A. alpina var. intermedia Rosenvinge; A. alpina var. porsildii (E. Ekman) T. J. Sørensen; A. alpina var. stolonifera (A. E. Porsild) S. L. Welsh; A. alpina var. ungavensis Fernald; A. arenicola Malte; A. atriceps Fernald ex Raup; A. bayardi Fernald; A. boecheriana A. E. Porsild; A. brevistyla Fernald; A. brunnescens Fernald; A. cana Fernald & Wiegand (Fernald); A. canescens (Lange) Malte; A. canescens subsp. porsildii (E. Ekman) Á. Löve & D. Löve; A. canescens var. pseudoporsildii Böcher; A. columnaris Fernald; A. compacta Malte; A. confusa Fernald; A. crymophila A. E. Porsild; A. foggii Fernald; A. friesiana (Trautvetter) E. Ekman subsp. compacta (Malte) Hultén; A. glabrata (J. Vahl) Greene; A. intermedia (Rosenvinge) Porsild; A. labradorica Nuttall; A. longii Fernald; A. media Greene subsp. compacta (Malte) Chmielewski; A. pallida E. E. Nelson; A. pedunculata A. E. Porsild; A. porsildii E. Ekman; A. sornborgeri Fernald; A. stolonifera A. E. Porsild; A. subcanescens Ostenfeld ex Malte; A. ungavensis (Fernald) Malte; A. vexillifera Fernald; A. wiegandii Fernald
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Antennaria alpina

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Antennaria alpina (alpine pussytoes[3] or alpine catsfoot or alpine everlasting[4]) is a European and North American species of plant in the family Asteraceae. Antennaria alpina is native to mountainous and subarctic regions of Scandinavia, Greenland, Alaska, and the Canadian Arctic, extending south at high altitudes in mountains in the Rocky Mountains south to Montana and Wyoming.[5][6][7][8]

Antennaria alpina is a perennial, herbaceous plant growing to 15 cm tall, with off-white to pinkish flowerheads 4–8 mm in diameter, produced in clusters of three to five together.[5]

References

  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer - Antennaria alpina". NatureServe Explorer Antennaria alpina. NatureServe. 2022-06-22. Retrieved 22 Jun 2022.
  2. ^ Antennaria alpina (L.) Gaertn.. The Plant List.
  3. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Antennaria alpina". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - the University of Texas at Austin".
  5. ^ a b Flora of North America, Alpine pussytoes, Antennaria alpina (Linnaeus) Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 410. 1791
  6. ^ Biota of North America Propgram 2014 county distribution map
  7. ^ Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of the Yukon Territory i–xvii, 1–669. NRC Research Press, Ottawa.
  8. ^ Moss, E. H. 1983. Flora of Alberta (ed. 2) i–xii, 1–687. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

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Antennaria alpina: Brief Summary

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Antennaria alpina (alpine pussytoes or alpine catsfoot or alpine everlasting) is a European and North American species of plant in the family Asteraceae. Antennaria alpina is native to mountainous and subarctic regions of Scandinavia, Greenland, Alaska, and the Canadian Arctic, extending south at high altitudes in mountains in the Rocky Mountains south to Montana and Wyoming.

Antennaria alpina is a perennial, herbaceous plant growing to 15 cm tall, with off-white to pinkish flowerheads 4–8 mm in diameter, produced in clusters of three to five together.

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