Antennaria pulcherrima

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Antennaria pulcherrima
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Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Antennaria
Species:
A. pulcherrima
Binomial name
Antennaria pulcherrima
(Hook.) Greene
Synonyms [1]
  • Antennaria carpatica var. pulcherrimaHook.
  • Antennaria pulcherrima var. angustisquamaA.E.Porsild
  • Antennaria pulcherrima var. sordidaB.Boivin
  • Antennaria carpatica var. humilisHook., syn of subsp. eucosma
  • Antennaria eucosmaFernald & Wiegand., syn of subsp. eucosma

Antennaria pulchella is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common names showy pussytoes and handsome pussytoes. [2] It is widespread across much of Canada including the three Arctic Territories, as well as in parts of the United States (Alaska, the northern Rocky Mountains and northern Cascades). [3] [4]

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Description

Antennaria pulcherrima is a herbaceous plant up to 65 cm tall. Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants. It tends to grow on alluvial soils deposited by streams, generally in alpine or subarctic environments. [2]

Subspecies [1] [2]

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<i>Antennaria alpina</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Antennaria howellii</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Antennaria luzuloides</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Antennaria media</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria media is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Rocky Mountain pussytoes. It is native to western Canada and the Western United States from Alaska and Yukon Territory to California to New Mexico. It grows in cold Arctic and alpine regions, either at high latitudes in the Arctic or at high elevations in the mountains.

<i>Antennaria racemosa</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria racemosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name racemose pussytoes. It is native to western North America from British Columbia and Alberta south as far as northern California and Wyoming. It grows in mountain forests, generally in moist, partially shaded areas, and often colonizes bare patches of mineral-rich soil, including disturbed areas.

<i>Antennaria rosea</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria rosea is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name rosy pussytoes. Other common names include cat's foot and mountain everlasting. The second part of its scientific name, rosea, is Latin for pink. It is widespread across much of Canada including all three Arctic territories, as well as Greenland, the western and north-central United States, and the Mexican state of Baja California.

<i>Antennaria umbrinella</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria umbrinella is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common names umber pussytoes and brown pussytoes. It is native to southwestern Canada and the western United States as far south as Colorado, Coconino County in Arizona, and Tulare County in California). It grows in a variety of habitats at a variety of elevations, from lowland sagebrush steppe to subalpine meadows.

<i>Antennaria microphylla</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria microphylla is a stoloniferous perennial forb in the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across northern and western North America, from Alaska and the three Canadian Arctic territories east to Quebec and south to Minnesota, New Mexico, and California.

<i>Antennaria parvifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria parvifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known by the common names small-leaf pussytoes and Nuttall's pussytoes. It is native to western and central North America.

<i>Antennaria plantaginifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria plantaginifolia is a perennial forb native to the eastern North America, that produces cream colored composite flowers in spring.

<i>Antennaria anaphaloides</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria anaphaloides, the pearly pussytoes, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to western Canada and the western United States.

Antennaria friesiana, or Fries' pussytoes, is an Arctic species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is the northern reaches of Asia and North America. Many of the populations lack male (staminate) flowers and reproduce asexually.

<i>Antennaria lanata</i> Species of flowering plant

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 and the northwestern United States.

<i>Antennaria monocephala</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria monocephala, the pygmy pussytoes, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to arctic and alpine regions of North America as well as the Chukotka (Chukchi) Peninsula of Russia.

<i>Antennaria neglecta</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria neglecta is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name field pussytoes. It is widespread across much of Canada as well as the northeastern and north-central United States.

Antennaria parlinii is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Parlin's pussytoes. It is widespread across eastern and central Canada and eastern and central United States, from Manitoba to Nova Scotia south as far as Texas and Georgia.

Antennaria solitaria is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name singlehead pussytoes. It is found in the southeastern and east-central part of the United States from Delaware and southern Pennsylvania west to southern Illinois and south as far as Georgia and Louisiana.

<i>Antennaria stenophylla</i> Species of flowering plant

Antennaria stenophylla is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name narrowleaf pussytoes. It is native to the Great Basin, Columbia Plateau, and Snake River Plain of the Western United States, in the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah.

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