Elegant pussytoes

Antennaria eucosma Fernald & Wiegand, Rhodora 13: 23. 1911; A. carpatica (Wahlenberg) Hooker var. humilis Hooker

Plants 8–25 cm. Basal leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, 50–170 × 5–18 mm, faces silvery sericeous. Cauline leaves 7–30 mm, mostly not flagged (sometimes flagged near heads). Heads 3–15. Involucres: staminate 5.5–7 mm; pistillate 7–10 mm. Phyllaries distally light brown or castaneous. Corollas: staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–4.3 mm. Cypselae 1.2–1.5 mm; pappi: staminate 4–6 mm; pistillate 5–7 mm. 2n = 56.

Flowering summer. Limestone barrens, serpentine; 0–300 m; Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), Que. (Anticosti Island).

Subspecies eucosma is known from limestone barrens in western Newfoundland and Anticosti Island (K. M. Urbanska 1983). It is morphologically similar to subsp. pulcherrima; the two are separated mainly by the presence of prominent flags on cauline leaves in subsp. pulcherrima and their absence in subsp. eucosma.