Anaphaloides: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.  plants 20-50 cm tall; NOT [plants 10-20 cm tall], NOT [plants low, flowering stems 2-5 cm high, scarcely exceeding the basal leaves] plants NOT densely caespitose basal leaves, if present, upright around the stem; NOT [basal leaves in well-developed appressed rosettes] plants with well-developed stem leaves; NOT [plants with greatly reduced stem leaves] upper stem leaves much shorter than the lower; NOT [upper stem leaves half as long as the lower] leaves mostly linear-lanceolate; NOT [leaves usually small, ovate to spatulate] heads several on a stem; NOT [heads solitary] involucres 6-10 mm high; NOT [involucres 4-5 mm high] involucral bracts in 3 or 4 series; NOT [involucral bracts in 6 or 7 series] base of bract with or without a small dark spot; NOT [base of bract with a large dark spot], NOT [bracts of involucre conspicuously dark green or brown below] (BF) tip of bract white; NOT [tip of bract brownish or yellowish] (BF) bracts mostly white, with only a brownish black spot at the base; NOT [bracts brownish black or white only at the tip] (FOA) bracts scarious only at the tip; NOT [bracts scarious throughout] bracts woolly at the base; NOT [bracts glabrous]

 

Antennaria: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus.  plants perennial with fibrous roots, often with rhizomes or stolons, but lacking a taproot; NOT [plants perennial with taproot, or low spreading annuals] plants often stoloniferous; NOT [plants rhizomatous but lacking stolons] juice watery; NOT [plants with a milky or sticky sap] plants more or less white-woolly; NOT [plants not at all white-woolly] low plants; NOT [tall plants] leaves mostly basal, with stem leaves reduced; NOT [stems leafy] 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] basal leaves, if any, not cordate or sagittate; NOT [basal leaves cordate or sagittate] receptacle naked; NOT [receptacle densely bristly] bracts of involucre dry, parchmenty or membranous, not green; NOT [bracts of involucre not dry or parchmenty, usually green] involucral bracts mostly with dry, scarious, thin, white to yellowish or brownish tips]; NOT [involucral bracts not markedly scarious at the tip] flower heads with all florets tubular no fertile bisexual florets; NOT [some florets bisexual] 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] male and female florets on separate plants; NOT [both male and female florets on same plant] stamens united to form a tube around the pistil pappus of capillary bristles, sometimes plumose; NOT [pappus of scales, or of awns, or a crown, or none]