Antennaria alpina

Antennaria alpina (alpine pussytoes[2] or alpine catsfoot or alpine everlasting[3]) is a European and North American species of plant in the sunflower family. Antennaria alpina is native to mountainous and subarctic regions of Scandinavia, Greenland, Alaska, and the Canadian Arctic, extending south at high altitudes in mountains in the Rocky Mountains south to Montana and Wyoming.[4][5][6][7]

Antennaria alpina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Antennaria
Species:
A. alpina
Binomial name
Antennaria alpina
Synonyms[1]

Antennaria alpina is a perennial, herbaceous plant growing to 15 cm tall, with off-white to pinkish flowerheads 4–8 mm in diameter, produced in clusters of three to five together.[4]

References
  1. Antennaria alpina (L.) Gaertn.. The Plant List.
  2. "Antennaria alpina". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  3. https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=ANAL4
  4. Flora of North America, Alpine pussytoes, Antennaria alpina (Linnaeus) Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 410. 1791
  5. Biota of North America Propgram 2014 county distribution map
  6. Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of the Yukon Territory i–xvii, 1–669. NRC Research Press, Ottawa.
  7. Moss, E. H. 1983. Flora of Alberta (ed. 2) i–xii, 1–687. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.


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