''Antennaria alpina'' (alpine pussytoes or alpine catsfoot or alpine everlasting) is a

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an and North American species of plant in the family

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. ''Antennaria alpina'' is native to mountainous and subarctic regions of

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Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

, and the Canadian Arctic, extending south at high altitudes in mountains in the

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south to

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and

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.Moss, E. H. 1983. Flora of Alberta (ed. 2) i–xii, 1–687. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. ''Antennaria alpina'' is a

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, 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.

References

External links

Den virtuaella floran, Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Fjällkattfot ''Antennaria alpina'' (L.) Gaertn.
in Swedish with photos

in Swedish with photos
Ian McLaren;s Arctic Flowers, ''Antennaria alpina''Turner Photographics, Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest, ''Antennaria alpina''Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia, ''Antennaria alpina''

alpina Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen GmbH & Co. KG is an automobile manufacturing company based in Buchloe, in the Ostallgäu district of Bavaria, Germany that develops and sells high-performance versions of BMW cars. Alpina works closely with BMW an ...

Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Alpine flora Flora of Europe Flora of Greenland Flora of Subarctic America Flora of Canada Flora of the Northwestern United States {{gnaphalieae-stub