Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Antennaria angustata Greene trib. Gnaphalieae |
Bibliography | Pittonia 3: 284 (1898) |
Native Range | Subarctic America to nw. USA |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | 0-2900m |
Description | stoloniferous, basal leaves 1-nerved, spathulate or oblanceolate, 1-2cm, mucronate, abaxially tomentose, adaxially glabrous, stem leaves linear, capitula solitary |
Size | 5-12cm |
Color | |
Bloom | spring, early summer |
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. megacephala (Raup) S.L.Welsh Antennaria burwellensis Malte Antennaria congesta Malte Antennaria fernaldiana Polunin Antennaria hudsonica Malte Antennaria megacephala Fernald ex Raup Antennaria monocephala ssp. angustata (Greene) Hultén Antennaria pygmaea Fernald Antennaria tansleyi Polunin Antennaria tweedsmuirii Polunin |
Territory | 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (MNT Montana, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) |