| Author | Greene | |
| Distribution | Limited to the Mountains and foothills, as far as known. Records from just five counties on SERNEC, some of which are listed under A. neodioica, now a subspecies of A. howellii -- see Taxonomic Comments.
Newf. to N.W.T., south to NC, TN, KS, CO, and OR. | |
| Abundance | Probably rare, but more data needed. The several species of Antennaria can be difficult to identify and their taxonomy is unsettled. Thus, the website editors have assigned a loose State Rank of S2? for now, and not suggesting Watch List at the present time. Weakley (2024) shows the species as "rare" in NC, owing to the "rare" mapping of each of the two subspecies in NC. To back the map below, the ranges of the two varieties on the Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora are shown to exist only sparingly in the mountains and Piedmont, seemingly rare in both -- though mapping there is also incomplete. | |
| Habitat | Shaly or calcareous outcrops and bluffs, and dry woodlands. Likely limited to circumneutral soils in the state; if so, this would explain its rarity here. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting May-June. | |
| Identification | Howell's Pussytoes grows 6 inches to a foot tall from a basal rosette of leaves, and often also with leafy stolons radiating out from the base. Leaves are oblanceolate or like a spatula, 1-veined, dull brownish green above and densely pale gray hairy beneath. Stem leaves are linear and pointy. Our only other pussytoes with 1-veined leaves is A. neglecta, which has upper surfaces of the leaves gray-hairy. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | A synonym is A. neglecta var. attenuata. Weakley (2024) lists two subspecies in the state -- ssp. neodioica and ssp. petaloidea.
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| Other Common Name(s) | Small Pussytoes | |
| State Rank | [S2?] | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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