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Key to AntennariaView taxon page for Antennaria
(For a list of species in Antennaria, use the above link.) Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots. 1. Heads 1 per flower stem 2' Stem < 4 cm; leaves thin, gray-tomentose adaxially, tips acute Having a short-tapered, sharp tip, the sides convex or straight and converging at less than a right angle. 1' Heads 2–many per flower stem 4. Stolons 0, plants not forming mats, sometimes forming clumps via rhizomes 5. Involucre proximally densely tomentose Covered with densely interwoven, generally matted hairs. ; phyllary tips generally pink to red or light to dark brown, occasionally olive-green 6' Rosette leaves present; phyllary tips light to dark brown, occasionally olive-green ..... A. sawyeri 7. Proximal leaves 7–20 mm wide; stem 18–40 cm; phyllaries white or cream, unequal ..... A. argentea 7' Proximal leaves 1–10 mm wide; stems 7–25 cm; phyllaries straw-colored or pale, ± equal ..... A. luzuloides 4' Stolons present, plants forming mats 9. Rosette leaves elliptic In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear , green adaxially; inflorescence raceme- or panicle-like; peduncles Stalk of an individual flower borne singly, not in an inflorescence, or of an entire inflorescence, or the corresponding structure in fruit; the stalk subtending an involucre (e.g., in Asteraceae, Polygonaceae). 10–30 mm; inflorescence finely glandular ..... A. racemosa 9' Rosette leaves linear Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong. or oblanceolate to spoon- or wedge-shaped; inflorescence cyme-like; peduncles < 5 mm; inflorescence glandular or not 10. Rosette leaves green or lightly tomentose adaxially, 1–3-veined 11' Rosette leaves <= 6 mm wide, 1-veined; cauline leaves 7–16 mm; inflorescence generally glandular; SnBr ..... A. marginata 10' Rosette leaves gray- to silvery-tomentose adaxially, 1-veined 12. Phyllaries dark brown to black; stem 3–13 cm 13. Most proximal cauline leaf Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets). 11–20 mm; herbage generally not glandular; pistillate flower corolla 3–4.5 mm in fruit; staminate corolla generally 2.8–4.5 mm in flower ..... A. media 13' Most proximal cauline leaf <= 11 mm; herbage generally glandular; pistillate corolla 2–3 mm in fruit; staminate corolla generally <= 2.8 mm in flower ..... A. pulchella 12' Phyllaries white to pale yellow, rose or pale brown; stem 6–40 cm 14. Phyllaries white-tipped with a prominent ± black-brown spot near base of scarious part ..... A. corymbosa 14' Phyllaries white or white-tipped, rose, straw-colored or (paler) brown, not dark-spotted near base 16. Stolons slightly woody, ascending Curving or angling upward from base, or about 30-60 degrees less than vertical or away from axis of attachment. ; phyllaries pale yellow to pale brown distally, narrow and acute (pistillate) or wide and blunt (staminate); staminate plants present – n SNH, W&I ..... A. umbrinella 16' Stolons not woody, horizontal to ascending; phyllaries various colors, tips acute; staminate plants ± 0 ..... A. rosea 17. Longest leaf of flower rosettes A radiating cluster of leaves generally at or near ground level. 8–20 mm; phyllaries often brown ..... subsp. confinis
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