| Antennaria pulcherrima (Hook.) Greene | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Antennaria carpatica var. pulcherrima Hook. | ||
| Description | Stems tall, up to 50 cm, sericeous-tomentose, from slender rootstock; lower stem leaves oblanceolate, acute, grayish-green, the upper linear; inflorescence glomeru- late, in age more open; pistillate plant with several heads and obtuse, pale-brown, involucral bracts; staminate plant with smaller heads, involucral bracts with whit- ish, often reflexed tips; pappus with clavellate bristles. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, river flats, alpine slopes to at least 1,200 meters in the Yukon. De- scribed from the Rocky Mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. angustisquama Pors. differs in having narrow, glabrate leaves, long-pedun- culate lateral heads, and long-attenuate, greenish-black-tipped involucral bracts. A. pulcherrima belongs to the complicated circumpolar A. carpatica complex. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.