Antennaria corymbosa

Flat top pussytoes

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Flat top pussytoes is a California native perennial found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in moist meadows and streamsides at elevations of 1,900 to 3,200 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white flower heads with distinctly black-brown spotted phyllaries, clustered in small cymes of 3 to 7 heads. Growing with slender stems 6 to 15 centimeters tall and spreading horizontal stolons up to 10 centimeters long, it forms low-growing patches. Its basal leaves are spoon-shaped, 18 to 22 millimeters long, and covered in a grayish felt-like tomentose surface. The plant produces small fruits about 0.5 to 1 millimeter long with a delicate white pappus.

Habitat: Moist meadows, streamsides

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1900-3200 m

Bioregions: SNH

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