Antennaria parliniiFernald

Parlin's pussytoes

WFO wfo-0000034161 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Antennaria parlinii, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. a Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-16 / obs. 198254841

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Native range 40 botanical countries

Regions where Antennaria parlinii is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Québec, Rhode I., South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin AlabamaArkansasConnecticutGeorgiaIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineManitobaMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriNebraskaNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaNova ScotiaOhioOklahomaOntarioPennsylvaniaQuébecSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasVermontVirginiaWest VirginiaWisconsin DelawareRhode I.
Native distribution of Antennaria parlinii, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Iowa IOW
Kansas KAN
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Maine MAI
Manitoba MAN
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
Nebraska NEB
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Nova Scotia NSC
Ohio OHI
Oklahoma OKL
Ontario ONT
Pennsylvania PEN
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
South Carolina SCA
South Dakota SDA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Vermont VER
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA
Wisconsin WIS

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 122 in flower of 162 examined

Proportion of examined Antennaria parlinii in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 0 too few examined
Feb 1 1 too few examined
Mar 13 14 93% 69% to 99%
Apr 85 91 93% 86% to 97%
May 20 36 56% 40% to 70%
Jun 3 9 33% 12% to 65%
Jul 0 3 too few examined
Aug 0 4 too few examined
Sep 0 2 too few examined
Oct 0 1 too few examined
Nov 0 1 too few examined
Dec 0 0 too few examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Antennaria parlinii 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. 122 of 162 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 984 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -14.5 °C -5.8 °C 4.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.9 °C 28.6 °C 34.7 °C
Annual rainfall 816 mm 1,021 mm 1,349 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 75 mm 192 mm 281 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 984 research-grade observations of Antennaria parlinii 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 29 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 ambigens Fernald
  • Antennaria ampla Bush
  • Antennaria arkansana Greene
  • Antennaria arnoglossa Greene
  • Antennaria arnoglossa var. ambigens Greene
  • Antennaria arnoglossa var. arnoglossa
  • Antennaria bifrons Greene
  • Antennaria brainerdii Greene
  • Antennaria brainerdii Fernald
  • Antennaria calophylla Greene
  • Antennaria elliptica Greene
  • Antennaria fallax Greene
  • Antennaria fallax var. calophylla Fernald
  • Antennaria fallax var. fallax
  • Antennaria farwellii Greene
  • Antennaria greenei Bush
  • Antennaria mesochora Greene
  • Antennaria munda Fernald
  • Antennaria neodioica var. arnoglossa (Greene) Fernald
  • Antennaria occidentalis Greene
  • Antennaria parlinii var. ambigens Fernald
  • Antennaria parlinii var. arnoglossa (Greene) Fernald
  • Antennaria parlinii var. fallax (Greene) B.L.Turner
  • Antennaria parlinii var. farwellii (Greene) B.Boivin

and 5 more.

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.