ANTENNARIA PARVIFOLIA Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 406.
A. dioica var. rosea D. C. Eaton, Bot. King's Exped. 186.
Name only. 1871.
Stems very slender, dm. high ; pubescence of the whole plant fine, silky and somewhat yellowish ; leaves of the stolons narrowly oblanceolate, 2-3 cm. long ; stern leaves linear ; heads small, 5-7 mm. high, in a contracted almost capitate cyme ; bracts of both staminate and pistillate heads in several rows, yellowish, the scarious portion oblong, obtuse, nearly always tinged with rose or pink.
It is nearest related to A. dioica, differing in the slender habit, small heads, narrow leaves and the color of the plant and bracts ; the staminate plant is very rare. The following specimens are
in the Columbia herbarium : California : Mrs. R. M. Austin, 1894; J. Torrey, no. 256, 1865.
Oregon : Wilkes expedition.
IFashington : W. N. Suksdorf, no. 2190, 1892. Idaho : A. A. & Gertrude Heller, no. 3441, 1896. Nevada : S. Watson, no. 652, 1868.
Utah: M. E. Jones, no. 1390, 1879.
Colorado : Parry ; F. N. Pease ; Dr. E. Penard, nos. 282 and 284, 1891.
South Dakota (Black Hills): P. A. Rydberg, no. 79, 1892.
.LlIontana : J. H. Flodman, no. 863, 1896. Vancouver Island: John Macoun, 1887. Subarctic America : R. Kennicott, 1861-62.