Antennaria parlinii

Antennaria parlinii is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Parlin's pussytoes. It is widespread across eastern and central Canada and eastern and central United States, from Manitoba to Nova Scotia south as far as Texas and Georgia.[2][3]

Antennaria parlinii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Antennaria
Species:
A. parlinii
Binomial name
Antennaria parlinii
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy
  • Antennaria arnoglossa Greene
  • Antennaria ambigens (Greene) Fernald, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria ampla Bush, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria arkansana Greene, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria bifrons Greene, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria brainerdii Fernald, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria brainerdii Greene, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria calophylla Greene, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria elliptica Greene, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria fallax Greene, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria farwellii Greene, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria greenei Bush, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria mesochora Greene, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria munda Fernald, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria occidentalis Greene, syn of subsp. fallax
  • Antennaria umbellata Greene, syn of subsp. fallax

Antennaria parlinii is an herb up to 45 cm tall. Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants; in some populations all the plants are female.

Subspecies[1][3]
  • Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins
  • Antennaria parlinii subsp. parlinii

The species is named for American botanist John Crawford Parlin (1863–1948), who recognized the uniqueness of the species.[4][5]

References
  1. "Antennaria parlinii". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List.
  2. "Antennaria parlinii". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
  3. Bayer, Randall J. (2006). "Antennaria parlinii". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 19. New York and Oxford – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  4. "Antennaria parlinii (Parlin's pussytoes)". Go Botany. New England Wildflower Society.
  5. Fernald, Merritt Lyndon 1897. Garden & Forest 10(491): 284


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