Stems usually with purple glandular hairs (at least near summits of young flowering stems). Basal leaves abaxially gray-tomentose, adaxially green-glabrous. Flowering early-mid spring. Clearings, fields, roadsides, and open woods; 0-1500 m; Man., N.B., N.S., Ont., Que.; Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis. Glabrosity of subsp. parlinii is undoubtedly inherited from Antennaria racemosa (R. J. Bayer 1985b; Bayer and D. J. Crawford 1986).