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Antennaria plantaginifolia - Plantain-leaved Pussy Toes
Antennaria plantaginifolia - Plantain-leaved Pussy Toes
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Sizes available: TBD, ready in early June, 2026
Basics: zones 3-8, 12" x 6"+, full sun to part shade, mid spring bloom that looks like little kitten toes on fuzzy stalks over low-growing mats of silvery foliage, likes lean and slightly acid soils, drought tolerant.
Common names: Pussy Toes, Plantain-leaved Pussy Toes, Ladies' Tobacco, Mouse Ear, Everlasting
Family: Asteraceae
Origin/Distribution: Quebec and Maine, south to Florida, west to Louisiana, and north to Minnesota, native to Maine
Habitat: open, sunny, dry, lean, rocky
More: Larval host for the American Painted Lady, Vanessa virginensis, which is native to Maine. Excellent rock garden resident, or at the front of a dry, sunny border. I am testing out how much shade it can tolerate. In certain situations this could replace scraggly, ineffective lawn very nicely, I think. Stoloniferous and mat-forming as well as deer and rabbit resistant. This plant is dioecious. Closely related to Antennaria parlinii ssp. fallax which I also grow.
Source: Pizzo Native Plants, 2025
Image credits: Kristyna Culp (overall form) and Fritz Flohr Reynolds (detail) - both via Creative Commons through the North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox; flowering stems in the leaves, Honey Petal Plants
