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Alpine Pussytoes
Antennaria media
  
About Alpine Pussytoes (Antennaria media) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant 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 flower clusters no more than about 13 centimeters tall. The flower clusters 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.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Perennial herb

Size
Size
5.2 in tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
White

Wildlife Supported
 


 
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Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun

Sunset Zones
Sunset Zones?
1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
High meadows, snow basin and ridges

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 18.7" - 115.6", Summer Precipitation: 0.30" - 3.97", Coldest Month: 17.9" - 49.6", Hottest Month: 38.4" - 74.8", Humidity: 0.71" - 14.52", Elevation: 178" - 14460"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Rocky Mountain Pussytoes


Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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