Anaphalis: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. 

	tall plants; NOT [low plants]
	plants perennial with fibrous roots, often with rhizomes or stolons, but lacking a taproot; NOT [plants perennial with taproot, or low spreading annuals]
	plants rhizomatous but lacking stolons; NOT [plants often stoloniferous]
	juice watery; NOT [juice milky]
	plants more or less white-woolly; NOT [plants not at all white-woolly]
	basal leaves soon deciduous, not markedly larger than the numerous well-developed cauline leaves; NOT [basal leaves generally forming a persistent tuft or rosette, stem seldom very leafy]
	basal leaves, if any, not cordate or sagittate; NOT [basal leaves cordate or sagittate]
	stems leafy; NOT [leaves mostly basal, with stem leaves reduced]
	receptacle naked; NOT [receptacle densely bristly]
	flower heads with all florets tubular
	dioecious or nearly so, the heads of at least some plants wholly staminate or pistillate; NOT [heads all with outer pistillate flowers and central perfect flowers], NOT [flowers all perfect] (FOA)
	pistillate heads commonly with a few central staminate flowers; NOT [heads strictly dioecious] (FOA)
	bracts of involucre dry, parchmenty or membranous, not green; NOT [bracts of involucre not dry or parchmenty, usually green] (BF)
	involucral bracts mostly with dry, scarious, thin, white to yellowish or brownish tips; NOT [involucral bracts not markedly scarious at the tip] (FOA)
	stamens united to form a tube around the pistil
	pappus of capillary bristles, sometimes plumose; NOT [pappus of scales, or of awns, or a crown or none]