Frost boil or outcrop pussytoes

Antennaria neoalaskana A. E. Porsild, Sargentia 4: 71. 1943

Dioecious (staminates and pistillates in equal frequencies in populations). Plants 7.5–14 cm. Stolons 1–4 cm. Cauline leaves 4–20 mm. Heads 2–6. Involucres: staminate 4–6.5 mm; pistillate 7–8 mm. Corollas: staminate 2.5–3 mm; pistillate 3–4.5 mm. Cypselae 1.2–1.8 mm; pappi: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm. 2n = 56.

Flowering summer. Arctic and alpine tundra, on dry rocky outcrops, fell fields, or gravelly frost boils; 600–1500 m; N.W.T., Yukon; Alaska.

Subspecies neoalaskana is dioecious (sexual) and occurs from the eastern Brooks Range, Alaska, to the Richardson Mountains and into the central MacKenzie Mountains, on the Yukon-Northwest Territories boundary (R. J. Bayer 1993). It intergrades somewhat with the other two subspecies of Antennaria friesiana; it can be separated from other arctic members of Antennaria because it is dioecious and has 2–6 heads and well-developed stolons. It is a likely progenitor of the A. alpina complex.