Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Antennaria monocephala DC. trib. Gnaphalieae |
Bibliography | Prodr. 6: 269 (1838) |
Native Range | s. Siberia to Russian Far East, Subarctic America to w. Canada |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | 0-2900m |
Description | leaves 1-2cm, oblong-spathulate, tapered to petiole, obtuse, stem leaves smaller, lanceolate-linear or linear, white lanate, capitula solitary |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 13-20°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Antennaria alpina var. monocephala (DC.) Torr. & A.Gray Antennaria exilis Greene Antennaria komarovii Juz. ex Kom. Antennaria monocephala var. exilis (Greene) Hultén Antennaria monocephala var. latisquama Hultén Antennaria monocephala ssp. philonipha (A.E.Porsild) Hultén Antennaria nitens Greene Antennaria philonipha A.E.Porsild Antennaria shumaginensis A.E.Porsild |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, IRK Irkutsk) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, MAG Magadan) 38 Eastern Asia 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) |