Alpine pussytoes facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Alpine pussytoes
Scientific classification
Genus:	Antennaria
Species:	alpina
Synonyms
Synonymy Antennaria arenicola Malte Antennaria atriceps Fernald ex Fernald Antennaria bayardii Fernald Antennaria borealis Greene 1899 not Gand. 1887 Antennaria brunnescens Fernald Antennaria cana (Fernald & Wiegand) Fernald Antennaria columnaris Fernald Antennaria compacta Malte Antennaria confusa Fernald Antennaria crymophila A.E.Porsild Antennaria foggii Fernald Antennaria glabrata (J.Vahl) Greene Antennaria groenlandica Porsild Antennaria × hansii A.Kern. Antennaria intermedia (Rosenv.) Porsild Antennaria labradorica Nutt. Antennaria lapponica Selander Antennaria longii Fernald Antennaria pallida E.E.Nelson Antennaria pedunculata A.E.Porsild Antennaria porsildii E.Ekman Antennaria sornborgeri Fernald Antennaria stolonifera A.E.Porsild Antennaria subcanescens Ostenf. ex Malte Antennaria ungavensis (Fernald) Malte11 Antennaria vexillifera Fernald Antennaria wiegandii Fernald Chamaezelum alpinum Link Gnaphalium alpinum L. Gnaphalium monanthon Willd. ex DC. Gnaphalium uniflorum Pall. ex DC.

Antennaria alpina (alpine pussytoes or alpine catsfoot or alpine everlasting) is a European and North American species of plant in the sunflower family. Antennaria alpina is native to mountainous and subarctic regions of Scandinavia, Greenland, Alaska, and the Canadian Arctic, extending south at high altitudes in mountains in the Rocky Mountains south to Montana and Wyoming.

Antennaria alpina is a perennial, herbaceous plant growing to 15 cm tall, with off-white to pinkish flowerheads 4–8 mm in diameter, produced in clusters of three to five together.