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Woolly Pussytoes

Antennaria lanata (Hook.) Greene

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Dioecious. Plants 3–20 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout). Stolons none. Basal leaves 3-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate, 10–60(–100) × 3–12 mm, tips acute, faces gray-woolly or tomentose. Cauline leaves linear, 5–40 mm, mid and distal flagged. Heads 3–9 in corymbiform arrays. Involucres: staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. Phyllaries (proximally light brown, dark brown, or olivaceous) distally whitish or light brown. Corollas: staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–4 mm. Cypselae 1–1.6 mm, glabrous; pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm. 2n = 28 (under A. neodioica).
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 19: 389, 394, 397, 399 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Antennaria carpatica (Wahlenberg) Hooker var. lanata Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 329. 1834
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 19: 389, 394, 397, 399 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Antennaria lanata

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Antennaria lanata is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known by the common name woolly pussytoes.[2] It is native to western Canada (Alberta, British Columbia) and the northwestern United States (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and extreme northern California (Del Norte and Trinity Counties)).[3][4]

Antennaria lanata is a small herb up to 20 cm (8 inches) tall. Leaves are covered with thick white hairs resembling wool. It is dioecious, meaning that male and female flowers are borne on separate plants. It grows in protected alpine and subalpine sites in mountainous areas.[2]

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Antennaria lanata: Brief Summary

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Antennaria lanata is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known by the common name woolly pussytoes. It is native to western Canada (Alberta, British Columbia) and the northwestern United States (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and extreme northern California (Del Norte and Trinity Counties)).

Antennaria lanata is a small herb up to 20 cm (8 inches) tall. Leaves are covered with thick white hairs resembling wool. It is dioecious, meaning that male and female flowers are borne on separate plants. It grows in protected alpine and subalpine sites in mountainous areas.

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