. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 43. THISTLE FAMILY. 451. 6. Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richards. Plantain-leaf Everlasting. Fig. 4398. Gnaphalium plantaginifolium L. Sp. PI. 850. 1753. Antennaria plantaginifolia Richards. App. Frank. Journ. Ed. 2, 30. 1823. Floccose-woolly, stoloniferous, forming broad patches; flowering sterns of fertile plant 4'-2o' high, slender or stout, someti
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 43. THISTLE FAMILY. 451. 6. Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richards. Plantain-leaf Everlasting. Fig. 4398. Gnaphalium plantaginifolium L. Sp. PI. 850. 1753. Antennaria plantaginifolia Richards. App. Frank. Journ. Ed. 2, 30. 1823. Floccose-woolly, stoloniferous, forming broad patches; flowering sterns of fertile plant 4'-2o' high, slender or stout, sometimes with glandu- lar hairs. Basal leaves obovate, spatulate, or broadly oval, obtuse or acutish, distinctly 3- ribbed, petioled, dull dark green and arachnoid above, silvery beneath, 1V-3' long, 5"-i8" wide; stem-leaves sessile, oblong or lanceolate, the upper usually small and distant; heads in corymbose or often subcapitate clusters, 4"-s" broad; involucre 3"-4i" high, its bracts green- ish-white, linear to lanceolate, acute or acutish; achenes minutely glandular; sterile plant smaller, 3'-8' high; basal leaves somewhat smaller; heads smaller, 3"-4" broad; bracts oblong, obtuse. In dry soil, especially in open woods, Quebec to Florida, Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas. Spring- or early everlasting. White plantain. Pussy-toes. Ladies'-tobacco. Dog-toes. Four-toes. Love's-test. Indian-or woman's-tobacco. Poverty-weed. Pearly mouse-ear everlasting. Consists of many races differing in size, leaf-form, leaf-size, size of heads and shape of involucral bracts; these have been variously regarded by authors as species and as varieties. April-June. 7. Antennaria microphylla Rydb. Small-leaved Cat's-foot. Fig. 4399. A. microphylla Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 24: 303. 1897. ?A. parvifolia Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II) 7 : 406. 1841. Stem .slender, 8'-l2' high; stolons short, not over 2I' long. Basal leaves and those of the ends of the stolons spatulate,
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