Antennaria dioica(L.) Gaertn.

stoloniferous pussytoes

WFO wfo-0000035189 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Antennaria dioica, photographed by Elias
fig. a Elias, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205235928
Antennaria dioica, photographed by Ilkka Kaita-aho
fig. b Ilkka Kaita-aho, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205120453
Antennaria dioica, photographed by Daniel Linzbauer
fig. c Daniel Linzbauer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204076007
Antennaria dioica, photographed by Katrin Simon
fig. d Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203770567
Antennaria dioica, photographed by Philipp
fig. e Philipp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203218201
Antennaria dioica, photographed by CorentinD
fig. f CorentinD, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203181559
Antennaria dioica, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. g Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202847790
Antennaria dioica, photographed by David Sandler
fig. h David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202449166

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Native range 58 botanical countries

Regions where Antennaria dioica is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Primorye, Sakhalin, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Krym, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Aleutian Is. AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaNorth CaucasusPrimoryeSakhalinTranscaucasusTürkiyeTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyKrymNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine Korea
Native distribution of Antennaria dioica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
Aleutian Is. ALU NORTHERN AMERICA

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is., Great Britain, Aleutian Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 531 in flower of 741 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Antennaria dioica observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 531 of 741 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,965 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -25.7 °C -12.1 °C -2.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 13.9 °C 21.5 °C 24.2 °C
Annual rainfall 443 mm 686 mm 1,831 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 44 mm 108 mm 322 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,965 research-grade observations of Antennaria dioica that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Antennaria arida subsp. visci E.E.Nelson
  • Antennaria dioica var. australis Gris
  • Antennaria dioica var. dioica
  • Antennaria dioica var. hyperborea (D.Don) DC.
  • Antennaria hibernica Braun-Blanq.
  • Antennaria hyperborea D.Don
  • Antennaria insularis Greene
  • Antennaria microphylla Rydb.
  • Antennaria montana Gray
  • Antennaria parvifolia var. rosea (D.C.Eaton) Greene
  • Antennaria rosea f. decipiens B.Boivin
  • Chamaezelum dioicum (L.) Link
  • Cyttarium dioicum (L.) Peterm.
  • Gnaphalium alpinum Asso ex DC.
  • Gnaphalium boreale Turcz. ex DC.
  • Gnaphalium dioica L.
  • Gnaphalium dioicum L.
  • Gnaphalium dioicum var. dioicum
  • Gnaphalium hyberboreum Winch ex DC.
  • Gnaphalium pes-cati Garsault

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.