860812 Antennaria friesiana (Trautv.) E. Ekman
- E. Ekman, Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 22: 416 (1928) "frieseana". - Antennaria alpina var. friesiana Trautv., Fl. Terr. Tschukt.: 24 (1878). Described from the Kolyma River (Siberia).
2n=
(1) 28 (4x). - Chmielewski and Chinnappa (1990).
(2) 56 (8x). - Chmielewski and Chinnappa (1990).
Geography: Asian (NE) - amphi-Beringian - North American (N).
Notes: Elven and Petrovsky: Bayer (1993, 1996, 2006) treated the Antennaria friesiana group as one species with three subspecies: the sexuals subsp. alaskana and subsp. neoalaskana and the agamospermous subsp. friesiana. He considered the sexuals to be the progenitors of the much more widespread and agamospermous one. The sexuals are mainly restricted to the Beringian (unglaciated) parts of northwestern North America and the aggregate has its centre there.
Two races described from northeastern Asia (Petrovsky 1986) may belong somewhere within the named subspecies but we do not yet know where. They have not been effectively compared with North American plants and are entered provisionally after subsp. friesiana because we assume them to be closely related to or synonymous with that subspecies.