Antennaria media

Taxobox
name = "Antennaria media"


image_width = 210px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
genus = "Antennaria"
species = "A. media"
binomial = "Antennaria media"
binomial_authority = Greene
synonyms = "Antennaria austromontana"
"Antennaria candida"
"Antennaria densa"
"Antennaria gormanii"
"Antennaria modesta"
"Antennaria mucronata"

"Antennaria media" is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name Rocky Mountain pussytoes. It is native to western North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to California to New Mexico, where it grows in cold regions such as the alpine climate of high mountains. This is a perennial herb forming a matted patch of stolons and woolly basal leaves with inflorescences no more than about 13 centimeters tall. The inflorescences contain several flower heads. The species is dioecious, with male and female plants producing flower heads of slightly different morphologies. The fruit is an achene up to about 6 millimeters long, most of which is the long, soft pappus. There are several subspecies; one subspecies is diploid and reproduces sexually and the others are polyploid and display apomixis. [Chmielewski, J. G. (1997). A taxonomic revision of the "Antennaria media" (Asteraceae: Inuleae) polyploid species complex in western North America. "Brittonia" 49:3 309-27.]

References

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?609,671,680 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ANME2 USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Antennaria+media Photo gallery]