The photo above shows a close-up of the staminate flower heads of Hooker's pussytoes as photographed on cliffs on the northwest side of Mt. Adams................May 30, 2005.
The photo
at right is a close-up of the inflorescence of a male slender pussy-toes. Note the
minute glands on the involucres. Photographed at the Grassy Knoll Trailhead,
Gifford Pinchot N.F..........July 7, 1991.
Slender pussy-toes is a perennial wildflower with several upright stems arising from 10-60 cm high from creeping, leafy stolons. The herbage of the stems is thinly tomentose below and evidently glandular above. The basal leaves are short-petiolate with elliptic t elliptic-ovate or elliptic-obovate blades. The blades range from 1.5-8 cm long and 1-5 cm wide with a persistent cottony-tomentose lower surface and green and typically hairless upper surfaces (as seen in the photo above).
The inflorescence consists of a racemiform series of several flower heads, each flower head at the end of a long, slender stalk (as seen at right). The involucres are only lightly or scarcely tomentose. The involucres of the broader male flower heads range from 4-5 mm high while those of the narrower female heads range from 6-8 mm high. The tiny flowers are white.
Slender pussy-toes is a wildflower of moist forest openings from middle to higher elevations in the mountains.
Antennaria racemosa is found from British Columbia and Alberta south to Washington, Oregon, central Idaho and Wyoming.
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