Antennaria plantaginifolia

This species of pussytoes (sometime also called plantain-leaved pussytoes, plantain-leaved everlasting and ladies' tobacco) is a Missouri native perennial which typically grows in acid soils on dry or rocky slopes, prairies and glades throughout the State. It is a stoloniferous, mat-forming, woolly plant, with all of the leaves and flower stalks being woolly and grayish. Somewhat non-showy, fuzzy, whitish flower heads tinged with pink bloom in spring. Flowers are crowded into terminal clusters (corymbs) atop small-leaved flowering stems rising to 10\ high from a basal rosette of paddle-shaped ... more »

This species of pussytoes (sometime also called plantain-leaved pussytoes, plantain-leaved everlasting and ladies' tobacco) is a Missouri native perennial which typically grows in acid soils on dry or rocky slopes, prairies and glades throughout the State. It is a stoloniferous, mat-forming, woolly plant, with all of the leaves and flower stalks being woolly and grayish. Somewhat non-showy, fuzzy, whitish flower heads tinged with pink bloom in spring. Flowers are crowded into terminal clusters (corymbs) atop small-leaved flowering stems rising to 10\ high from a basal rosette of paddle-shaped leaves (to 3\" long). Plants are dioecious (male and female flowers on separate plants), with male flowers typically appearing on shorter flower stalks. Commonly called pussytoes because of the supposed resemblance of each tight flower cluster to the pads or toes of a cat's paw. Basal leaves resemble plantain, hence the species name." (less)