Antennaria luzuloides Torr. & A. Gray
silvery-brown pussytoes (rush pussytoes; small-flowered fiddleneck; woodrush pussytoes)
Asteraceae (Aster family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
silvery-brown pussytoes (rush pussytoes; small-flowered fiddleneck; woodrush pussytoes)
Asteraceae (Aster family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
SUBTAXA PRESENT IN BC
Antennaria luzuloides ssp. luzuloides
Species Information
General:
Perennial herb from a branched woody base; stems erect, few, branched above, densely woolly-hairy, 15-70 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves linear-oblanceolate, gradually stalked, 3-10 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, erect, densely woolly-hairy, often several-nerved; stem leaves similar, becoming unstalked, linear and reduced upwards.
Flowers:
Heads discoid, several to numerous in a compact inflorescence; involucres of 2 types, the female ones 4-5 mm tall, involucral bracts oblanceolate to egg-shaped, the papery portion pale greenish-brown below, the upper portion whitish, glabrous to the base, the male bracts similar to the female; female flowers 2.5-4 mm tall, the male flowers 2-3.5 mm tall.
Fruits:
Achenes elliptic, 1-2 mm long, warty; pappus white with hairlike bristles, 2.5-4 mm tall; male pappus hairs strongly club-shaped and toothed at the the tips.
USDA Species Characteristics
Flower Colour:
White
Blooming Period:
Late Spring
Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: White
Present from Spring to Summer
Source: The USDA
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Antennaria luzuloides
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
| Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
1361 | 657 | 2854 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
37 | 10 | 70 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
218 | 7 | 283 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
1 | 1 | 3 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
B | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
18 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
ICH | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
ESSF(3), ICH(6), IDF(4), IMA(1), MS(4) | ||
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Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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