Low or two-form or cushion pussytoes

Gnaphalium dimorphum Nuttall, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 405. 1841; Antennaria dimorpha var. integra L. F. Henderson; A. dimorpha var. macrocephala D. C. Eaton; A. dimorpha var. nuttallii D. C. Eaton; A. latisquama Piper; A. macrocephala (D. C. Eaton) Rydberg

Dioecious. Plants 0.5–4 cm. Stolons none. Basal leaves: 1-nerved, linear to narrowly spatulate, 8–11 × 1–1.2 mm, tips acute, faces ± gray-tomentose. Cauline leaves linear or oblanceolate, 7–12 mm, not flagged (apices acute). Heads borne singly. Involucres: staminate 6–8 mm; pistillate 10–11 mm. Phyllaries distally dingy brown (apices acute-acuminate). Corollas: staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 8–10 mm. Cypselae 2–3.5 mm, pubescent; pappi: staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 10–12 mm. 2n = 28, 56.

Flowering early–mid spring. Sagebrush steppe, plains, foothills of mountains; 600–3400 m; Alta., B.C., Sask.; Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., Nebr., Nev., N.Mex., Oreg., Utah, Wash., Wyo.

Antennaria dimorpha is characterized by narrowly oblanceolate leaves and relatively large heads (borne singly). It is, perhaps, the most xerophytic of spring-blooming Antennaria species. It belongs to the Dimorphae group.