Antennaria parviflora, May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023
Common & scientific name
Small-leaf pussytoes, Antennaria parviflora
Family
Sunflower, Asteraceae
Location
Difficult Trail, 8,100’ & Grottos (below), 9,200’
Fun, weird, helpful, or little known fact
Pussytoes are made up only of disk flowers. Telling our half-dozen or so pussytoe species apart is tricky. The flowers of Small-leaf pussytoes are white or pinkish (see both photos), and its leaves, fuzzy on both sides, are thin on the stem and wide at the base, and the basal leaves are either rounded or obtuse at the apex. They generally grow lower on the Pass than others, and spread by stolons—slender stems running along the top of the ground—like strawberries.