Rosea:  Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.   stolons leafy basal leaves in well-developed appressed rosettes; basal leaves NOT upright around the stem plants with reduced stem leaves; NOT with well-developed stem leaves leaves usually small, ovate to spatulate; NOT mostly linear-lanceolate leaves generally narrower than 1 cm wide rosette leaves densely pubescent on both sides; NOT [glabrous to subglabrous above, densely pubescent below] heads on short peduncles or subsessile, in corymbs, often congested; NOT [on long slender peduncles in loose racemes] inflorescence more or less crowded at the top of the stem; NOT spread out along the stem bracts woolly at base; NOT [bracts glabrous or nearly so] terminal part of the involucral bracts roseate to deep pink, even at maturity; NOT [light pink when young and then turning white], NOT whitish, NOT cream, NOT greenish, NOT light to dark brown, NOT black

 

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] low plants; NOT tall plants juice watery; NOT milky plants more or less white-woolly leaves mostly basal basal leaves generally forming a persistent tuft or rosette; NOT [basal leaves soon deciduous, not markedly larger than the numerous well-developed cauline leaves] basal leaves, if any, NOT cordate, NOT sagittate stem leaves reduced; NOT leafy bracts of involucre dry, parchmenty or membranous; NOT green involucral bracts mostly with dry, scarious, thin, white to yellowish or brownish tips receptacle naked; NOT densely bristly flower heads with all florets tubular (discoid heads); NO ray florets NO fertile bisexual florets dioecious or nearly so, the heads of at least some plants wholly staminate or wholly pistillate; NOT [heads all with outer pistillate flowers and central perfect flowers] heads strictly dioecious; NOT [pistillate heads commonly with a few central staminate flowers] 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]