Antennaria flagellaris

Stoloniferous pussy-toes, stoloniferous pussy-toes, stoloniferous pussy-toes

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Stoloniferous pussy-toes is a California native perennial ranked 4.2 by CNPS, found in the Modoc Plateau in seasonally moist sagebrush scrub at elevations around 1,750 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces white flowers in small heads with brown to nearly black or nearly white phyllary tips. Growing with extremely short stems less than 1.5 centimeters tall emerging from a slender caudex, it spreads through delicate stolons 3 to 10 centimeters long. Its basal leaves are linear-oblanceolate, 16 to 18 millimeters long, with a grayish woolly texture and a single prominent vein. The plant produces tiny fruits 2 to 3 millimeters long with a pappus of slender bristles 6 to 8 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Seasonally moist sagebrush scrub

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 1750 m

Bioregions: MP

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