Antennaria

Ordinary Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria dioica)

The Everlasting ( Antennaria ) are a genus of flowering plants from the sunflower family ( Asteraceae). You have areas in temperate, arctic and alpine regions in North America, Mexico, South America and Eurasia. Some species are used in rock gardens as ornamental plants. There are types that serve the production of dried flowers. The name Antennaria refers to the Pappusborsten the male flowers that resemble antennae of insects.

Description

Antennaria species are perennial herbaceous plants or subshrubs. Some species form aboveground runners, other rhizomes. The change-constant leaves are entire, petiolate or sessile and can be. The leaves are on the upper side more or less glabrous to hairy, lower side but always hairy.

Single or up to twelfth in racemose, paniculate inflorescences trugdoldigen or sit unisexual basket- shaped part inflorescences. The species can be monoecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( monoecious ) or dioecious ( dioecious ). The flower heads have diameters of 2-8 mm, it is usually 20 to 100 flowers contain. The flowers are always unisexual. They are achenes with pappus. When the Cat's the apomictic reproduction plays an essential role. Thus, the views on the number of species go very apart.

Species

There are about 45 species in the genus Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria ):

  • Antennaria alpina (L.) Gaertn.
  • Antennaria anaphaloides Rydb.
  • Antennaria arcuata Cronq.
  • Silver Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria argentea Benth. )
  • Antennaria aromatica Evert
  • Antennaria boecheriana A.E.Porsild
  • Carpathian Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria carpatica ( Wahlenb. ) Bluff & Dingzhen. )
  • Caucasian Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria caucasica Boriss. )
  • Chilean Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria chilensis Remy )
  • Antennaria corymbosa E.Nels.
  • Antennaria densifolia Porsild
  • Low Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria dimorpha ( Nutt. ) Torr. & Gray )
  • Ordinary or vulgar Everlasting Everlasting ( Antennaria dioica (L.) Gaertn. )
  • Neufundländisches Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria eucosma remote. & Wieg. )
  • Antennaria flagellaris (Gray ) Gray
  • Antennaria friesiana ( Trautv. ) Ekman
  • Antennaria geyeri Gray
  • Antennaria hansii A.Kern.
  • Antennaria howellii Greene (syn.: A. canadensis)
  • Woolly Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria lanata ( Hook. ) Greene) - Woolly Pussytoes
  • Antennaria luzuloides Torr. & Gray
  • Antennaria marginata Greene
  • Rocky Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria media Greene)
  • Kleinblättriges Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria microphylla Rydb. )
  • Einköpfiges Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria monocephala DC. )
  • Antennaria neglecta Greene
  • Antennaria nordhageniana Rune & Ronning
  • Antennaria parlinii remote.
  • Antennaria parvifolia Nutt.
  • Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richards
  • Antennaria porsildii E.Ekman
  • Antennaria pulchella Greene
  • Antennaria pulcherrima ( Hook. ) Greene
  • Traubiges Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria racemosa Hook. )
  • Antennaria rosea Greene
  • Antennaria rosulata Rydb.
  • Antennaria soliceps Blake
  • Antennaria solitaria Rydb.
  • Antennaria stenophylla ( A. Gray ) A. Gray
  • Antennaria suffrutescens Greene
  • Antennaria umbrinella Rydb.
  • Antennaria villifera Boriss.
  • Antennaria virginica Stebbins

Hybrids

There are a large number of hybrids (selection):

  • Antennaria × erigeroides Greene
  • Antennaria × foliacea Greene
  • Antennaria × macounii Greene
  • Antennaria × oblancifolia E.Nels.

Pictures

Antennaria plantaginifolia

Carpathian Mountain Everlasting ( Antennaria carpatica )

Swell

  • Randall J. Bayer: Antennaria. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: unranked, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1 ( Mutisieae - Anthemideae ), Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford et al 2006, ISBN 0-19-530563-9, p 388, online ( engl. ).
Asteroideae Gnaphalieae Pappus (flower structure)
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