Antennaria suffrutescens

Greene

Pittonia 3: 277. 1898.

Common names: Evergreen or everlasting pussytoes
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 408. Mentioned on page 389, 390, 393, 409.

Dioecious. Plants 5–12 cm (densely tufted, bases woody; root crowns relatively slender). Stolons none. Basal leaves absent at flowering. Cauline leaves spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, not flagged (apices emarginate or obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green). Heads borne singly. Involucres: staminate 5–9 mm; pistillate 10–15 mm. Phyllaries (relatively wide) distally white. Corollas: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. Cypselae 1–2 mm, papillate; pappi: staminate 4.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm. 2n = 28.


Phenology: Flowering early summer.
Habitat: Dry, open coniferous woods or barren slopes on serpentine
Elevation: 500–1600 m

Discussion

Antennaria suffrutescens is characterized by suffrutescent growth form, relatively small, emarginate, adaxially glabrous, coriaceous leaves, and relatively large heads borne singly. It is known only from serpentine soils in open montane pine forests in Curry and Josephine counties, Oregon, and neighboring Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987). Antennaria suffrutescens may have contributed to the origin of some of the clones of the A. rosea complex (e.g., J. T. Howell 27718, NY).

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 +
subcapitate +, racemiform +, paniculiform +  and corymbiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Randall J. Bayer +
Greene +
decurrent +
compound +  and simple +
spatulate;oblanceolate;spatulate;oblanceolate;linear;lanceolate;elliptic;cuneate +
5-ribbed +, 3-ribbed +  and 2-ribbed +
muriculate +, papillate +  and smooth +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (?) +
Evergreen or everlasting pussytoes +
pistillate +  and staminate +
red +, yellow +  and white +
narrowly tubular +  and filiform +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
papillate +
mostly ellipsoid +  and ovoid +
pistillate +  and staminate +
Calif. +  and Oreg. +
500–1600 m +
papillate +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Dry, open coniferous woods or barren slopes on serpentine +
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 +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
cauline +  and basal +
rarely lanceovate +  and lanceolate +
2-carpellate +
pistillate +  and staminate +
persistent +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
Flowering early summer. +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
flat;convex or ovoid +
exalbuminous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Compositae +
Antennaria suffrutescens +
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species +
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4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +