Antennaria 



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Map 2078 



Antennaria neglecta Greene 



Inflorescence and corollas not as above. 



Upper surface of leaves of stolons and stems bright green, glabrous or nearly so 

 from the beginning or loosely tomentose (the tomentum tardily deciduous); 

 stems and stem leaves and usually also the stolons (especially toward the 

 base) generally covered more or less with purplish glands, sometimes the 

 glands very few, restricted to a few on the stem and on only the margins of 

 some of the stem leaves; leaves mostly rhombic-obovate, rounded or subacute 

 at the apex; involucres of pistillate plants mostly 7-8 mm long; corollas of 

 pistillate heads 4.5-5.8 mm long, those of staminate heads 3.5-4 mm long; 



achenes mostly 1.5-1.7 mm long 4. A. Parlinii. 



Upper surface of leaves of stolons, stem, and rosette dull, dark green, tomentose 

 or those of the rosette weathered glabrous. 

 Pistillate heads small; involucres 5-7 mm long; stems slender, stem leaves dis- 

 tant, basal leaves obovate to roundish oblong-ovate or more rarely oblanceo- 

 late, mature corollas of pistillate heads generally 3-4.3 mm long; achenes 



mostly 1.2-1.5 mm long 5. A. plantaginifolia. 



Pistillate heads larger, their involucres 6.5-10 mm long; mature pistillate 

 corollas 4.5-6 mm long (-7 mm in A. munda) ; achenes mostly 1.2-1.8 mm 

 long. 

 Principal rosette leaves of an ovate or elliptic type ; blades broadest at or below 

 the middle, mostly 1.5-3.5 cm wide except in A. munda. 



Blades of the rosette leaves tapering to a subacute apex 6. A. fallax. 



Blades of principal rosette leaves rounded at the apex 



6a. A. fallax var. calophylla. 



Principal rosette leaves mostly broadest above the middle, "spatulate or nar- 

 rowly spatulate-obovate, rounded at the apex; blades 2-6 cm long, 1.3-5 

 cm wide, 3-5-nerved, thinly canescent-tomentulose above; involucres 8-10 

 mm long; flower bracts in 3 or 4 series, brownish or purplish at the base, 

 the outer obtuse, the inner acute; corollas 5.5-7 mm long; achenes 1.5-1.8 

 mm long; longest pappus 8-9 mm long." 1 7. A. munda. 



1. Antennaria neglecta Greene. PUSSYTOES. Map 2078. In dry soil 

 on open, wooded slopes, on dry knolls along roadsides, in dry pastures 

 where it is most common, in the sandy soil of drained lake basins, and in 

 sandy, dry prairies. Staminate plants are nearly as frequent as the pistil- 

 late ones. 



1 A free translation of the original description. (Fernald. Rhodora 38: 229-230. 

 1936.) 



