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Rocky Mountain Pussytoes

Antennaria media Greene

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Antennaria media ranges from Arizona to Alaska; dioecious and gynoecious populations are encountered (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987). The dioecious (sexual) populations are restricted primarily to California and Oregon (Bayer et al. 1990). The main distinction between A. media and A. alpina is flags on distal cauline leaves present in A. alpina and mostly absent in A. media (Bayer 1990d). Phyllaries of the pistillate plants in A. alpina tend to be acute; they are blunter in A. media. At some point, it may be preferable to follow W. L. Jepson ([1923–1925]) and some later authors and treat A. media as a subspecies of A. alpina. Antennaria media appears to be an autopolyploid derivative of A. pulchella; genes from A. pulchella may have introgressed into the A. alpina and A. parvifolia complexes indirectly through A. media.
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Flora of North America Vol. 19: 390, 395, 406, 411, 415 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Dioecious or gynoecious (staminate plants rare or in equal frequency to pistillates, respectively). Plants 5–13 cm. Stolons 1–4 cm. Basal leaves 1-nerved, spatulate to oblanceolate, 6–19 × 2.5–6 mm, tips mucronate, faces gray-pubescent. Cauline leaves linear, 5–20 mm, not flagged (apices acute). Heads 2–5(–9) in corymbiform arrays. Involucres: staminate (3.5–)4.5–6.5 mm; pistillate 4–8 mm. Phyllaries distally dark brown, black, or olivaceous. Corollas: staminate 2.5–4.5 mm; pistillate 3–4.5 mm. Cypselae 0.6–1.6 mm, glabrous or papillate; pappi: staminate 2.5–4.5 mm; pistillate 4–5.5 mm. 2n = 56, 98, 112.
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Flora of North America Vol. 19: 390, 395, 406, 411, 415 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Antennaria alpina (Linnaeus) Gaertner var. media (Greene) Jepson; A. austromontana E. E. Nelson; A. candida Greene; A. densa Greene; A. modesta Greene; A. mucronata E. E. Nelson
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Flora of North America Vol. 19: 390, 395, 406, 411, 415 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Antennaria media

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Antennaria media is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Rocky Mountain pussytoes.[2] It is native to western Canada and the Western United States from Alaska and Yukon Territory to California to New Mexico. It grows in cold Arctic and alpine regions, either at high latitudes in the Arctic or at high elevations in the mountains (Rocky Mountains, Cascades, Sierra Nevada).[3][4]

Antennaria media is a perennial herb forming a matted patch of stolons and woolly basal leaves with inflorescences no more than about 13 centimeters tall. The inflorescences contain several flower heads. The species is dioecious, with male and female flowers on different plants. The fruit is an achene up to about 6 millimeters long, most of which is the long, soft pappus.[2][5]

Subspecies

There are several subspecies; one subspecies is diploid and reproduces sexually and the others are polyploid and display apomixis.[6]

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Antennaria media: Brief Summary

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Antennaria media is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Rocky Mountain pussytoes. It is native to western Canada and the Western United States from Alaska and Yukon Territory to California to New Mexico. It grows in cold Arctic and alpine regions, either at high latitudes in the Arctic or at high elevations in the mountains (Rocky Mountains, Cascades, Sierra Nevada).

Antennaria media is a perennial herb forming a matted patch of stolons and woolly basal leaves with inflorescences no more than about 13 centimeters tall. The inflorescences contain several flower heads. The species is dioecious, with male and female flowers on different plants. The fruit is an achene up to about 6 millimeters long, most of which is the long, soft pappus.

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