Antennaria neglecta
 
Prairie Everlasting

Inflorescence in Ground

Hudson Bay Regional Park
13-June-2009

I am following Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan and Flora of Alberta in defining A. neglecta broadly enough to include A. howellii, A. neodioica, and A. russellii

Neglecta: Answers to key questions in Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 

stolons often leafless, with a terminal rosette; NOT [stolons leafy]

basal leaves in well-developed appressed rosettes; NOT [basal leaves, if present, upright around the stem]

plants with reduced stem leaves; NOT [plants with well-developed stem leaves]

main leaves usually ovate to spatulate; NOT [main leaves mostly linear-lanceolate]

basal leaves generally about 1 cm wide; NOT [basal leaves generally narrower]

leaves usually green and glabrous above; NOT [leaves usually greyish and tomentose above and below]

heads in corymbs, often congested; NOT [heads in loose racemes]

heads on short peduncles; NOT [heads on long, slender peduncles]

bracts woolly at base; NOT [bracts glabrous or nearly so]

 

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

plants perennial with fibrous roots, often with rhizomes or stolons, but lacking a taproot; NOT [plants perennial with taproot, or low spreading annuals]

plants often stoloniferous; NOT [plants rhizomatous but lacking stolons]

juice watery; NOT [plants with a milky or sticky sap]

plants more or less white-woolly; NOT [plants not at all white-woolly]

low plants; NOT [tall plants]

leaves mostly basal, with stem leaves reduced; NOT [stems leafy]

basal leaves generally forming a persistent tuft or rosette, stem seldom very leafy; NOT [basal leaves soon deciduous, not markedly larger than the numerous well-developed cauline leaves]

basal leaves, if any, not cordate or sagittate; NOT [basal leaves cordate or sagittate]

receptacle naked; NOT [receptacle densely bristly]

bracts of involucre dry, parchmenty or membranous, not green; NOT [bracts of involucre not dry or parchmenty, usually green]

involucral bracts mostly with dry, scarious, thin, white to yellowish or brownish tips]; NOT [involucral bracts not markedly scarious at the tip]

flower heads with all florets tubular

no fertile bisexual florets; NOT [some florets bisexual]

heads strictly dioecious, the heads wholly staminate or pistillate; NOT [pistillate heads commonly with a few central staminate flowers], NOT [heads all with outer pistillate flowers and central perfect flowers]

male and female florets on separate plants; NOT [both male and female florets on same plant]

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]