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Rosy pussytoes

Antennaria rosea

Also called Pink Pussytoes, Rosy Everlasting, Rosy Pussy Toes

Rosy pussytoes
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
Subarctic America to W. & WC. U.S.A.

About

Antennaria rosea is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name rosy pussytoes. Other common names include cat's foot and mountain everlasting. The second part of its scientific name, rosea, is Latin for pink.

How to grow it

In the UK, A. rosea has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Subspecies

Where it grows

Antennaria rosea is widespread across much of Canada including all three Arctic territories, as well as Greenland, the western and north-central United States, and the Mexican state of Baja California.

Other Antennaria plants

Alpine pussytoes · Pearly pussytoes · Box pussytoes · Silver pussytoes · Scented pussytoes · Flat-top pussytoes · Denseleaf pussytoes · Low pussytoes · Stoloniferous pussytoes · Whip pussytoes · Fries' pussytoes · Pinewoods pussytoes

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Antennaria rosea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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