Deceitful pussytoes, antennaire litigieuse

Antennaria fallax Greene, Pittonia 3: 321. 1898; A. ambigens (Greene) Fernald; A. ampla Bush; A. arkansana Greene; A. arnoglossa Greene var. ambigens Greene; A. bifrons Greene; A. brainerdii Fernald; A. calophylla Greene; A. elliptica Greene; A. fallax var. calophylla (Greene) Fernald; A. farwellii Greene; A. greenei Bush; A. mesochora Greene; A. munda Fernald; A. occidentalis Greene; A. parlinii var. ambigens (Greene) Fernald; A. parlinii var. farwellii (Greene) B. Boivin; A. plantaginifolia (Linnaeus) Richardson var. ambigens (Greene) Cronquist; A. umbellata Greene

Stems usually glandless. Basal leaves abaxially and adaxially gray-tomentose to floccose-glabrescent.

Flowering early–mid spring. Clearings, fields, roadsides, and open deciduous woods; 0–1500 m; N.B., Ont., Que.; Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Miss., Mo., Nebr., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Pa., R.I., S.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.

The indument of subsp. fallax is undoubtedly inherited from two of its sexual progenitors, Antennaria plantaginifolia and A. solitaria (R. J. Bayer 1985b; Bayer and D. J. Crawford 1986).