Antennaria neglecta

Greene

Pittonia 3: 173. 1897.

Common names: Field pussytoes antennaire négligée
Endemic
Synonyms: Antennaria athabascensis Greene Antennaria campestris Rydberg Antennaria campestris var. athabascensis (Greene) B. Boivin Antennaria chelonica Greene Antennaria erosa Greene Antennaria howellii var. athabascensis (Greene) B. Boivin Antennaria howellii var. campestris (Rydberg) B. Boivin Antennaria longifolia Greene Antennaria lunellii Greene Antennaria nebrascensis Greene Antennaria neglecta var. athabascensis (Greene) Roy L. Taylor & MacBryde Antennaria neglecta var. campestris (Rydberg) Steyermark Antennaria neglecta var. simplex Peck Antennaria parvula Antennaria wilsonii
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 403. Mentioned on page 390, 395, 404, 405, 406.

Dioecious. Plants 4–25 cm. Stolons 2.5–18 cm. Basal leaves: 1-nerved, narrowly spatulate to cuneate-oblanceolate, 15–65 × 6–18 mm, tips mucronate, faces abaxially tomentose, adaxially gray-pubescent (green-glabrescent with age). Cauline leaves linear, 1.5–25 mm, distal flagged. Heads (1–)2–8 in corymbiform to spiciform or racemiform arrays. Involucres: staminate 4–7 mm; pistillate 6–10 mm. Phyllaries distally white. Corollas: staminate 2.7–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5(–7) mm. Cypselae 0.9–1.4 mm, minutely papillate; pappi: staminate 3.5–6.5 mm; pistillate 6–8.5(–9.5) mm. 2n = 28.


Phenology: Flowering early–mid spring.
Habitat: Plains, grasslands, pastures, and open woodlands
Elevation: 0–2500 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Man., N.W.T., N.S., Ont., Que., Sask., Ark., Colo., Conn., Del., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Mo., Mont., Nebr., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.Dak., Ohio, Okla., Pa., R.I., S.Dak., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis., Wyo.

Discussion

Antennaria neglecta is a sexual progenitor of both the A. howellii and A. parvifolia polyploid complexes and has one of the more widespread ranges among the amphimictic species in the genus in North America. Amphimicts generally have small ranges compared to those of the polyploid agamic complexes derived from them. Characteristic features of A. neglecta are its lashlike stolons that bear reduced leaves (except at the ends), flags on the distal cauline leaves, and basal leaves that are green-glabrescent with age (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1982).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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