Antennaria suffrutescens

Taxobox
name = "Antennaria suffrutescens"


image_width = 210px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
genus = "Antennaria"
species = "A. suffrutescens"
binomial = "Antennaria suffrutescens"
binomial_authority = Greene
synonyms =

"Antennaria suffrutescens" is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names evergreen pussytoes and evergreen everlasting. It is native to Oregon and far northern California, where it grows in coniferous forests in the mountains, sometimes on serpentine soils. This is a perennial herb producing several erect stems up to about 12 centimeters tall from a woody base. The densely packed leaves at the base of the plant are spoon-shaped with notched tips, woolly on the undersides and about a centimeter long. They are evergreen, remaining on the plant through the seasons. The inflorescence atop each stem bears a single flower head lined with woolly white phyllaries with yellow-green bases. The species is dioecious with female plants bearing slightly larger flower heads containing pistillate flowers, and male plants producing staminate flowers. The fruit is an achene up to a centimeter long, most of which is a long pappus attached to a small hard body.

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?609,671,686 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ANSU3 USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Antennaria+suffrutescens Photo gallery]