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| Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. | Species Image Gallery (opens in a new window) |
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| TAXONOMY | |||||||||||
| Family: | Asteraceae or Compositae | ||||||||||
| Genus: | Anaphalis | ||||||||||
| Species Synonyms: | Anaphalis margaritacea var. angustior
(Miq.) Nakai Anaphalis margaritacea var. intercedens Hara Anaphalis margaritacea var. occidentalis Greene Anaphalis margaritacea var. revoluta Suksdorf Anaphalis occidentalis (Greene) Heller Gnaphalium margaritaceum L. |
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| Common Names: | pearly everlasting western pearly everlasting |
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| DISTRIBUTION | |||||||||||
| Canada: | southwest Mackenzie district, British Columbia – western Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba – Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia | ||||||||||
| Saskatchewan: | western Saskatchewan; Cypress Hills, Kerrobert – Cutknife, Buffalo Narrows, Cluff Lake | ||||||||||
| Ecoregion: | Cypress Upland, Mixed Grassland, Moist Mixed Grassland, Aspen Parkland, Mid-Boreal Upland, Athabasca Plain | ||||||||||
| HABITAT | |||||||||||
| Saskatchewan: | moist sand and gravel soil in pine or mixed woods dominated by trembling aspen and white spruce | ||||||||||
| RARITY STATUS | |||||||||||
| Provincial
Status According to Harms (2003): |
Threatened |
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| Nature Conservancy Status: | G5 S2 |
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| Saskatchewan
Species at Risk Status: |
None |
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| COSEWIC Status: | None |
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| Pearly everlasting is wide-ranging in the province of Saskatchewan; however most local populations are small. No immediate threats are known but are possible in the future. | |||||||||||
| SPECIES DESCRIPTION | |||||||||||
| Height: | 20 – 80 cm tall | ||||||||||
| Roots: | fibrous; rhizomes dark to reddish-brown, woody | ||||||||||
| Stems: | may be tufted, very leafy, firm, light coloured, densely white-woolly | ||||||||||
| Leaves: | basal and on the stem, basal leaves deciduous, stem leaves alternate, sessile, 3 – 10 cm long, 0.5 – 1.5 cm wide, sometimes reduced below inflorescence, linear to lance-shaped, apex gradually tapered to a point or blunt, densely white-woolly (tawny in age) to nearly hairless above, white-woolly below, midvein conspicuous below, 1 – 3-nerved, margin entire or rolled under | ||||||||||
| Inflorescence: | cluster round-topped; flower stalks lanate, light coloured; heads 30 – 70, 8 – 10 mm wide, disc flowers only, flowers imperfect and on different plants or nearly so; bracts in several rows, 5 – 8 mm long, thin and dry, inner series becoming less so and more lance-shaped, overlapping, pearly white, may have dark spot at base, base woolly; receptacle naked | ||||||||||
| Flowers: | many per head, yellow | ||||||||||
| Fruits: | achene 0.7 – 1 mm long, olive brown; pappus of capillary bristles | ||||||||||
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