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Antennaria neglecta

field pussytoes
Antennaria neglecta
Photo 1. General image of Antennaria neglecta

Description

Antennaria neglecta, commonly known as field pussytoes, is a provincially blue listed flowering plant in BC. Federally it is not listed. It is part of the daisy family. It is a dicot with a perennial lifecycle.

Antennaria neglecta is a flowering plant that is 5-15 cm tall. The leaf shape is linear (long and very narrow like a blade of grass), lanceolate (long, wider in the middle, shaped like a lance tip) or oblanceolate (much longer than wide and with the widest portion near the tip, reversed lanceolate). Their surface is hairy. Leaves are arranged rosette. Leaves are 12-40 mm long and 6-12 mm wide. The stems form is erect. The stem is red in colour and has a hairy surface. white or brown pedals or sepals. Flowers are 4-6.5 mm long. Fruit are white in colour and approximately 6-8 mm long It has a hairy root structure.

It can be found from 0 m to 2000 m in elevation. It can be found in British Columbia, Canada. Antennaria neglecta is found in the alpine-tundra, boreal-white-and-black-spruce, sub-boreal-pine-spruce, sub-boreal-spruce, mountain-hemlock, engelmann-spruce-subalpine-fir, montane-spruce, bunchgrass, ponderosa-pine, interior-douglas-fir, interior-cedar-hemlock or coastal-western-hemlock biogeoclimatic zone(s).

ClassificationProtection StatusLocation
Type:
Domain:
Kingdom:Plantaeplant
Phylum/Division:Anthophytaflowering plant
Class/Clade:Dicotyledoneaedicot
Order/Series:Asterales
Family:Asteraceaedaisy
Genus:Antennaria
Species:Antennaria neglecta
Population:
British Columbia Red Listed Blue Listed Yellow Listed Exotic Listed Invasive Listed Noxious Listed
Species at Risk Act Endangered Least Concern Not Listed
World Status Extinct EW CR EN VU NT Least Concern
Municipalities
BC Biogeoclimatic Subzones Site Series
BC Biogeoclimatic Subzones
BC Biogeoclimatic Zones
BC Forest District
Provinces AB BC NB NL NT NS NU ON PE QC SK
Countries
Continents NA SA EU AS AF AU AN
Identification

General

Height
Life Cycle
Habit Tufted Creeping Stolon

Leafs

Length
Width
Surface Flat Keeled Smooth Ridged Hairy Pleated Wharted Groved Rough
Leaf Tip
Entire Leaf Shape
Leaf Base
Leaf Attachment
Edge
Arrangement
Thinkness Thin Thick Fleshy

Inflorescence

Length
Width
# (Pedals or Sepal) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 many pea irregular
Colour White Pink Purple Blue Green Yellow Orange Red Brown Black

Fruit

Length
Width
Shape Egg Shaped Hairy Silky Smooth Winged
Colour White Pink Purple Blue Green Yellow Orange Red Brown Black

Seeds

Length
Width
Colour White Pink Purple Blue Green Yellow Orange Red Brown Black

Stem

Texture Smooth Ridges Furrows Fissures Plates Peeling Scales Flaking Horizontal Lines Shredding Corky Blocky Hairy Spiny Thorny
Form Creeping Twinning Stiff Soft Woody Erect Ascending
Colour White Pink Purple Blue Green Yellow Orange Red Brown Black

Roots

Type Fibrous Tap Rhizome Fusiform Hairy
Habitat Requirements
Type
Marine Beach Sand Dune Bluff Riparian Stream Bog Fen Marsh Swamp Meadow
Vernal Pools Seasonal Seeps Mountains Mixed Forest Deciduous Forest Conifer Forest Gary Oak Grassland Desert Sagebrush Steppe
Disturbed Urban Rural Old Growth Undisturbed
Sunlight
Full Sun Mix Sun Shade Shade
Moisture
Marine Subtidal Marine Intertidal Brackish Intertidal Freshwater Obligate Freshwater Permanent Freshwater Seasonal Saturated Soil Moist Soil Dry Soil
pH
4 5 6 7 8
Elevation
Sea Level 500 m 1000 m 1500 m 2000 m
Soil
Organic Loam Sand Gravel Rocky

Life History

Age to Bloom12345678910>10
Max Age
BloomJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
FruitJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
SeedJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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