Antennaria pulchella

Greene

Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 2: 149. 1911.

Common names: Sierra pussytoes
Endemic
Synonyms: Antennaria alpina var. scabra (Greene) Jepson Antennaria media subsp. ciliata E. E. Nelson Antennaria media subsp. pulchella (Greene) Chmielewski Antennaria scabra
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 410. Mentioned on page 390, 395, 406, 409, 411, 415.

Dioecious. Plants (1–) 3–12 cm (stems usually stipitate-glandular). Stolons 1–4 (–9) cm. Basal leaves 1-nerved, spatulate to linear-cuneate, 6–12 × 1.5–4.5 mm, tips mucronate, faces glabrescent-scabrous to gray-pubescent (often with purple glandular-hairs). Cauline leaves linear, 3–11 (–13) mm, usually not flagged (apices acute to acuminate), rarely distal flagged. Heads 4–6 in corymbiform arrays. Involucres: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–4.5 mm. Phyllaries (relatively wide) distally dark brown-black (sometimes light-brown or whitish at very tips; apices blunt). Corollas: staminate 1.9–2.8 mm; pistillate 2–3 mm. Cypselae 0.7–1.3 mm, glabrous or slightly papillate; pappi: staminate 2.5–3.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–3.5 mm. 2n = 28 (as A. media).


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Moist subalpine-alpine meadows, snow basins, margins of tarns, streams, or run-off from snow masses
Elevation: 2800–3700 m

Discussion

Antennaria pulchella is the diploid progenitor of A. media and, consequently, a progenitor of the A. alpina complex (R. J. Bayer 1990d). The A. rosea and A. parvifolia complexes also have the genome of A. pulchella, shown in the high elevation clones with dark phyllaries in these two polyploid complexes. Antennaria pulchella is differentiated from A. media by shorter pistillate or staminate corollas and shorter cauline leaves (Bayer). This sexually reproducing diploid ranges from the area around Lake Tahoe to the Mt. Whitney region (Bayer).

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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more or less tomentose +  and sericeous or glabrescent +
obtuse;more or less truncate +
scarious +
mostly ovate +  and lanceovate or linear +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Randall J. Bayer +
Greene +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
spatulate;linear-cuneate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
decurrent +
compound +  and simple +
spatulate;oblanceolate;spatulate;oblanceolate;linear;lanceolate;elliptic;cuneate +
5-ribbed +, 3-ribbed +  and 2-ribbed +
muriculate +, papillate +  and smooth +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
Sierra pussytoes +
pistillate +  and staminate +
red +, yellow +  and white +
narrowly tubular +  and filiform +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
papillate +
mostly ellipsoid +  and ovoid +
pistillate +  and staminate +
Calif. +  and Nev. +
2800–3700 m +
glabrescent-scabrous +  and gray-pubescent +
papillate +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Moist subalpine-alpine meadows, snow basins, margins of tarns, streams, or run-off from snow masses +
in corymbiform , paniculiform , racemiform or subcapitate , arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
pistillate +  and staminate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
campanulate;cylindric +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
cauline +  and basal +
rarely lanceovate +  and lanceolate +
2-carpellate +
pistillate +  and staminate +
persistent +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
Flowering summer. +
Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
flat;convex or ovoid +
exalbuminous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Antennaria alpina var. scabra +, Antennaria media subsp. ciliata +, Antennaria media subsp. pulchella +  and Antennaria scabra +
Antennaria pulchella +
Antennaria +
species +
mucronate +
25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +