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

	plants 20-50 cm tall; NOT [plants 10-20 cm tall], NOT [plants low, flowering stems 2-5 cm high, scarcely exceeding the basal leaves]
	plants NOT densely caespitose
	basal leaves, if present, upright around the stem; NOT [basal leaves in well-developed appressed rosettes]
	plants with well-developed stem leaves; NOT [plants with greatly reduced stem leaves]
	upper stem leaves much shorter than the lower; NOT [upper stem leaves half as long as the lower]
	leaves mostly linear-lanceolate; NOT [leaves usually small, ovate to spatulate]
	heads several on a stem; NOT [heads solitary]
	involucres 6-10 mm high; NOT [involucres 4-5 mm high]
	involucral bracts in 6 or 7 series; NOT [involucral bracts in 3 or 4 series]
	base of bract with a large dark spot; NOT [base of bract with or without a small dark spot], NOT [bracts of involucre conspicuously dark green or brown below] (BF)
	tip of bract brownish or yellowish; NOT [tip of bract white] (BF)
	bracts brownish black or white only at the tip; NOT [bracts mostly white, with only a brownish black spot at the base] (FOA)
	bracts scarious only at the tip; NOT [bracts scarious throughout]
	bracts woolly at the base; NOT [bracts glabrous]

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]