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6. Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) 
Richards. Plantain-leaf Everlasting. 
Fig. 4398. 
Gnaphalium plantaginifolium L. Sp. Pl. 850. 1753. 
Antennaria plantaginifolia Richards. App. Frank. 
Journ. Ed. 2, 30. 1823. 
Floccose-woolly, stoloniferous, forming broad 
patches; flowering stems of fertile plant 4’—20’ 
high, slender or stout, sometimes with glandu- 
lar hairs. Basal leaves obovate, spatulate, or 
broadly oval, obtuse or acutish, distinctly 3- 
ribbed, petioled, dull dark green and arachnoid 
above, silvery beneath, 13’-3’ long, 5-18” 
wide; stem-leaves sessile, oblong or lanceolate, 
the upper usually small and distant; heads in 
corymbose or often subcapitate clusters, 4’-5” 
broad; involucre 3-4” high, its bracts green- 
ish-white, linear to lanceolate, acute or acutish ; 
achenes minutely glandular; sterile plant 
smaller, 3’-8’ high; basal leaves somewhat 
smaller; heads smaller, 3’’-4” broad; bracts 
oblong, obtuse. 
In dry soil, especially in open woods, Quebec to 
Florida, Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas. Spring- 
or early everlasting. White plantain. Pussy-toes. 
Ladies’-tobacco, Dog-toes. Four-toes. Love’s-test. Indian- or woman’s-tobacco. Poverty-weed. Pearly 
mouse-ear everlasting. Consists of many races differing in size, leaf-form, leaf-size, size of heads 
and shape of involucral bracts; these have been variously regarded by authors as species and as 
varieties. April-June. 
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7. Antennaria microphylla Rydb. Small-leaved 
Cat’s-foot. Fig. 4399. 
A. microphylla Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 24: 303. 1897. 
?A. parvifolia Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II) 7: 406. 1841. 
Stem slender, 812’ high; stolons short, not over 23’ 
long. Basal leaves and those of the ends of the stolons 
spatulate, obtuse; or apiculate, 2-8” long, 1-2” wide, 
narrowed from above the middle; stem-leaves linear- 
oblong, or the leaves linear-spatulate, often longer than 
the basal ones; heads corymbose, rather numerous; 
involucre 23-34” high; bracts of the fertile heads 
linear-oblong, acute or acutish, those of the sterile ob- 
tuse. 
Dry plains and hills, Saskatchewan to Nebraska, British 
Columbia and New Mexico. July—Aug. 
8. Antennaria neodioica Greene. Smaller 
Cat’s-foot. Fig. 4400. 
Antennaria neodioica Greene, Pittonia 3: 184. 1897. 
A, alsinoides Greene, Pittonia 4: 83. 1899. 
A. rupicola Fernald, Rhodora 1: 74. 1899. 
Floccose-woolly, with numerous stolons which 
are leafy throughout; stem of fertile plants slen- 
der, about 1° high. Basal leaves about 1’ long, 
3-5” wide, broadly obovate to spatulate, 1-nerved, 
or indistinctly 3-nerved, white-tomentose beneath, 
becoming glabrate above, usually narrowed into 
* distinct petioles; stem-leaves linear, acute; heads 
loosely corymbose, 3-4” broad; otitermost bracts 
of the involucre obtuse, the rest lanceolate, acute, 
or acuminate, all greenish or brownish below, 
with white scarious tips; achenes obtusely 4-an- 
gled, granular-papillose; sterile plant lower, 3’-8’ 
high; heads more densely clustered, the bracts of 
the involucre oblong, obtuse. - 
In dry places, Newfoundland to Virginia, Quebec, Michigan and South Dakota. April—July. 
