Antennaria monocephala

Antennaria monocephala (common name pygmy pussytoes)[1] It is native to arctic and alpine regions of North America (Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, the three Canadian Arctic Territories, Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta, and Wyoming) as well as the Chukotka (Chukchi) Peninsula of Russia.[2][3][4][5][6]

Antennaria monocephala
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Antennaria
Species:
A. monocephala
Binomial name
Antennaria monocephala
DC. 1838 not (Torr. & A. Gray) Greene 1897
Synonyms

Antennaria monocephala is a small herb rarely more than 15 cm (6 inches) tall. Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants; some populations are known in which all the individuals are female.[1]

Subspecies
  • Antennaria monocephala subsp. angustata (Greene) Hultén
  • Antennaria monocephala subsp. monocephala

References
  1. Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 411 Pygmy pussytoes, Antennaria monocephala de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 6: 269. 1838.
  2. Biota of North America Program 2014 state-level distribution map
  3. Hultén, E. 1968. Flora of Alaska i–xxi, 1–1008. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  4. Moss, E. H. 1983. Flora of Alberta (ed. 2) i–xii, 1–687. University of Toronto Press, Toronto
  5. Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of the Yukon Territory i–xvii, 1–669. NRC Research Press, Ottawa
  6. Juzepczuk, Sergei Vasilievich & Komarov, Vladimir Leontjevich. 1930. Flora of Kamtschatka 3:130


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