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Antennaria media is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name Rocky Mountain pussytoes. It is native to western North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to California to New Mexico, where it grows in cold regions such as the alpine climate of high mountains. This is a perennial herb forming a matted patch of stolons and woolly basal leaves with flower clusters no more than about 13 centimeters tall. The flower clusters contain several flower heads. The species is dioecious, with male and female plants producing flower heads of slightly different morphologies. The fruit is an achene up to about 6 millimeters long, most of which is the long, soft pappus. There are several subspecies; one subspecies is diploid and reproduces sexually and the others are polyploid and display apomixis.
Perennial herb
5 in Tall
White
Full Sun
1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17
High meadows, snow basin and ridges
Alpine Fell-Fields, Subalpine Forest, Wetland-Riparian
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 4 likely
White-spotted Midget
Eutricopis nexilis
Pussy's Toes Pyrausta
Pyrausta unifascialis
American Lady
Vanessa virginiensis