General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
Plant Height: 4 inches or less
Plant Spread: 3 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Evergreen
Other: Leaves are gray-green, covered in woolly hairs.
Fruiting Time: Late spring or early summer
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Uses: Erosion control
Groundcover
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Other Beneficial Insects: Leaves are host for caterpillars of the American Painted Lady butterfly. Caterpillars build little protective "tents" of silk between pairs of leaves.
Resistances: Tolerates foot traffic
Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds
Depth to plant seed: on soil surface
Sow in situ
Propagation: Other methods: Stolons and runners
Pollinators: Hoverflies
Flies
Bees
Wind
Miscellaneous: Dioecious

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Common names
  • Field Pussytoes
  • Prairie Everlasting
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Antennaria neglecta
  • Synonym: Antennaria angustiarum
  • Synonym: Antennaria athabascensis
  • Synonym: Antennaria chelonica
  • Synonym: Antennaria lunellii
  • Synonym: Antennaria campestris
  • Synonym: Antennaria longifolia
  • Synonym: Antennaria nebraskensis
  • Synonym: Antennaria erosa
  • Synonym: Antennaria wilsonii

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Location: Fairfax, Virginia
Date: 2022-04-13
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Location: Fairfax, VA | September, 2023
Date: 2023-08-26
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Location: Fairfax, VA | September, 2023
Date: 2023-09-24
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2012-05-02

Late blooms. That's weird.
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Date: 2024-04-05

Date: 2024-04-09
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: 2016-05-28
An American painted lady caterpillar, which eats pussytoes leaves
Location: Ecological Botanical Garden of the University of Bayreuth
Date: May
photo by El Grafo
Location: Yard, near Central Iowa
Date: 2014-9-8
This was about four months' worth of growth from a bare root... m
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2012-05-02
long shot of how they grow
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2012-05-02
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (Outdoors)
Location: Ecological Botanical Garden of the University of Bayreuth
Date: May
photo by El Grafo
Location: Ecological Botanical Garden of the University of Bayreuth
Date: May
photo by El Grafo
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2012-05-02
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2012-05-01
Comments:
  • Posted by Chillybean (Iowa - Zone 5a) on Jul 22, 2015 6:19 PM concerning plant:
    I do not care for cats, but I was tickled with the name Prairie Pussytoes in the native catalogue. It makes a nice ground cover and needs very little water. I learned this after planting my first bare root. I kept watering to help it establish, but learned it did not care for this. Now it only receives what the Lord provides. :)
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