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|accepted_name=Antennaria pulcherrima
|accepted_authority=(Hooker) Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pittonia
|place=3: 176. 1897
|year=1897
}}
|common_names=Showy or handsome pussytoes;antennaire magnifique
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Antennaria carpatica var. pulcherrima
|authority=Hooker
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication_place=1: 329. 1834
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Antennaria pulcherrima var. angustisquama
|authority=A. E. Porsild
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Antennaria pulcherrima var. sordida
|authority=B. Boivin
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae;Antennaria;Antennaria pulcherrima
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Antennaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Antennaria pulcherrima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 389, 393, 394, 399
|treatment_page=page 400
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Dioecious.</b> Plants (8–)30–65 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout). <b>Stolons</b> none. <b>Basal</b> leaves 3–5-nerved, spatulate to oblanceolate or lanceolate, 50–200 × 4–25 mm, tips acute, mucronate, faces gray-pubescent or silvery sericeous. <b>Cauline</b> leaves linear, 8–140 mm, distal flagged or not. <b>Heads</b> 3–30 in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b>: staminate 5–8 mm; pistillate 7–12 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> distally black, dark brown, light brown, castaneous, or olivaceous. <b>Corollas</b>: staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 3–6 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 1–1.5 mm, glabrous; pappi: staminate 4–6 mm; pistillate (5–)8–10 mm. <b>2n</b> = 28, 56.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Antennaria pulcherrima</i> is characterized by relatively large basal leaves, rhizomatous growth, and dark-colored phyllaries, each with a relatively large black spot at the base (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987).</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Cauline leaves: distal usually flagged; corollas: staminate 3.5–5 mm; pistillate 4–6 mm; wet sites, willow thickets, subalpine or subarctic, Colorado to Alaska, e to Ontario, w Quebec
|[[Antennaria pulcherrima subsp. pulcherrima|Antennaria pulcherrima subsp. pulcherrima]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Cauline leaves: mostly not flagged (sometimes flagged near heads); corollas: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–4.3 mm; limestone near sea level, w Newfoundland, Anticosti Island
|[[Antennaria pulcherrima subsp. eucosma|Antennaria pulcherrima subsp. eucosma]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Antennaria pulcherrima
|authority=(Hooker) Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Antennaria pulcherrima var. angustisquama;Antennaria pulcherrima var. sordida
|basionyms=Antennaria carpatica var. pulcherrima
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pittonia
|publication year=1897
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae
|genus=Antennaria
|species=Antennaria pulcherrima
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