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Common Name:
SMOOTH PUSSYTOES
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Coefficient of Conservatism:
2
Coefficient of Wetness:
5
Wetness Index:
UPL
Physiognomy:
Nt P-Forb
R. W. Smith
More often than our other species in shaded places, even forests, and rich soil, but usually in dry open sites, including rock outcrops, banks, grassy roadsides and hillsides; savanna of oak, hickory, sassafras, and/or jack pine, especially along borders and in clearings; but sometimes with beech and maple in moister forests.
This is one of our commonest species, as well as the most easily recognized one; subsp. fallax (Greene) Bayer & Stebbins ranges throughout the state and has the basal leaves ± persistently pubescent above, often with bits of cobwebby tomentum adhering into late summer; subsp. parlinii has the basal leaves glabrous or nearly so above even when relatively young and also often has some tiny pink-purple hairs among the tomentum of the upper parts of the stem. Subspecies parlinii occurs only in the southern third of the Lower Peninsula, north to Kent Co. Occasionally (especially on the Keweenaw Peninsula) plants of A. howellii subsp. neodioica are found that approach A. parlinii in a tendency toward 3-nerved basal leaves.
Locations
Alcona County
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Alger County
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Allegan County
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Alpena County
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Antrim County
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Arenac County
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Baraga County
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Barry County
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Bay County
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Benzie County
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Berrien County
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Calhoun County
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Cass County
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Charlevoix County
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Including Beaver Island
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Cheboygan County
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Chippewa County
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Only on Drummond Island
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Clinton County
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Crawford County
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Dickinson County
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Eaton County
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Emmet County
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Genesee County
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Gladwin County
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Gogebic County
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Grand Traverse County
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Gratiot County
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Hillsdale County
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Houghton County
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Huron County
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Ingham County
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Ionia County
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Iosco County
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Isabella County
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Jackson County
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Kalamazoo County
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Kalkaska County
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Kent County
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Keweenaw County
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Including Isle Royale
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Lake County
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Lapeer County
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Leelanau County
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Including Manitou Islands
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Lenawee County
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Livingston County
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Mackinac County
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Including Bois Blanc, Mackinac, Round Islands
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Macomb County
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Manistee County
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Marquette County
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Mason County
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Mecosta County
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Midland County
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Monroe County
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Montcalm County
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Muskegon County
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Newaygo County
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Oakland County
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Oceana County
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Ontonagon County
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Osceola County
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Oscoda County
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Otsego County
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Ottawa County
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Roscommon County
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Saginaw County
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Schoolcraft County
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Shiawassee County
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St. Clair County
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St. Joseph County
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Van Buren County
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Washtenaw County
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Wayne County
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Wexford County
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Citation:
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. January 30, 2023. https://michiganflora.net/species.aspx?id=219.