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).