Antennaria unknownA
 
Unknown Everlasting

Flower Heads Side

Centre Block, Cypress Hills Provincial Park
04-July-2014

I am currently unsure which species of Antennaria this specimen is.  The bracts do not appear to have a distinct dark brown or blackish spot at the base, as they do in A. corymbosa.  The dark area in the photographs of the bracts may be more a transparent area through which the black background can be seen.  In addition, these dark areas cannot be seen unless the bract is removed from the flower head.  This specimen has more than the 5-7 stem leaves associated with A. Aprica.  It even has more than the 8-12 stem leaves associated with A. microphylla.  However, this specimen may be a robust A. microphylla.  If you believe you know the correct identification, you could phone me (Colin) at 306-359-3806.

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UnknownA: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 
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Antennaria: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. 
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plants perennial with fibrous roots, often with rhizomes or stolons, but lacking a taproot; NOT [plants perennial with taproot, or low spreading annuals]

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plants often stoloniferous; NOT [plants rhizomatous but lacking stolons]

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juice watery; NOT [plants with a milky or sticky sap]

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plants more or less white-woolly; NOT [plants not at all white-woolly]

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low plants; NOT [tall plants]

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leaves mostly basal, with stem leaves reduced; NOT [stems leafy]

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basal leaves generally forming a persistent tuft or rosette, stem seldom very leafy; NOT [basal leaves soon deciduous, not markedly larger than the numerous well-developed cauline leaves]

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basal leaves, if any, not cordate or sagittate; NOT [basal leaves cordate or sagittate]

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receptacle naked; NOT [receptacle densely bristly]

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bracts of involucre dry, parchmenty or membranous, not green; NOT [bracts of involucre not dry or parchmenty, usually green]

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involucral bracts mostly with dry, scarious, thin, white to yellowish or brownish tips]; NOT [involucral bracts not markedly scarious at the tip]

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flower heads with all florets tubular

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no fertile bisexual florets; NOT [some florets bisexual]

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heads strictly dioecious, the heads wholly staminate or pistillate; NOT [pistillate heads commonly with a few central staminate flowers], NOT [heads all with outer pistillate flowers and central perfect flowers]

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male and female florets on separate plants; NOT [both male and female florets on same plant]

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stamens united to form a tube around the pistil

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pappus of capillary bristles, sometimes plumose; NOT [pappus of scales, or of awns, or a crown, or none]