Antennaria parvifolia Nutt.
Nuttall's pussytoes (small-leaf pussytoes)
Asteraceae (Aster family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Nuttall's pussytoes (small-leaf pussytoes)
Asteraceae (Aster family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Species Information
General:
Perennial herb, mat-forming with numerous leafy stolons; stems erect, several, branched above, densely woolly-hairy, 2-15 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves spoon-shaped or oblanceolate, 1-nerved, stalked, densely white woolly-hairy, sometimes less so above, 1.0-3.5 cm long, 2.5-10 mm wide, abruptly sharp-pointed; stem leaves linear to lanceolate, long-pointed, unstalked, reduced above.
Flowers:
Heads few to several in a compact, rounded cluster; involucres of 2 types, the female ones 7-11 mm tall, the involucral bracts lanceolate, the papery portion white, dull white or occasionally pinkish, blunt, woolly-hairy towards the base, the male ones similar except rounded; female flowers 5-8 mm tall, the male flowers similar.
Fruits:
Achenes 0.5-1.5 mm long, glandular, warty or glabrous; pappus white with hairlike bristles, the tips narrowly dilated, 3.5-7.0 mm long.
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Antennaria parvifolia
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 |
||
|
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
999 | 335 | 2500 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
19 | 0 | 240 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
194 | 0 | 360 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
2 | 0 | 7 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
425 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
IDF | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
AT(6), BG(63), BWBS(1), ESSF(10), ICH(6), IDF(202), IMA(5), MS(7), PP(65), SBPS(15), SBS(2) | ||
|
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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Habitat and Range
Mesic to dry meadows, grasslands, shrublands and open forests in the lowland, steppe and montane zones; frequent in S BC east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains, infrequent on Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, the adjacent coast and EC BC; E to W ON and S to OK, NM, AZ, MX and E. WA. DescriptionStatus Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Antennaria aprica Greene
Antennaria aprica var. minuscula (Boivin) Boivin
Antennaria aureola Lunell
Antennaria holmii Greene
Antennaria latisquamea Greene
Antennaria minuscula B. Boivin
Antennaria obtusata Greene
Antennaria pumila Greene
Antennaria recurva Greene
Antennaria rhodanthus Suksd.