Antennaria virginica Stebbins
Detail
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Botanical Name
- Antennaria virginica Stebbins
- Common Name
- Shale-barren Pussytoes
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Antennaria virginica Stebbins
- Comments
- This species is a broad, Central Appalachian endemic. It is a characteristic plant of shale barrens, but not restricted to them.
- Habitat
- Dry, open forests, rocky woodlands, barrens, and clearings; especially common on shale and once thought to be endemic to shale barrens but now known to occur on a variety of other sedimentary, metasedimentary, and even mafic substrates. Infrequent to locally common in the mountains; infrequent in the n. Piedmont; rare in the inner s. Piedmont foothills.
- Native Status
- Native
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