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Antennaria umbrinella
Also called Brown-bract pussytoes, Brown Pussytoes, Brown Bracted Pussytoes, Pussytoes
Umber pussytoes is a low, native perennial herb of western North America that forms mats from spreading stolons. It is a wild alpine and steppe plant rarely grown in gardens, and it needs cool, dry, well-drained conditions with full sun.
Antennaria umbrinella is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common names umber pussytoes and brown pussytoes. It is native to southwestern Canada (Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia) and the western United States as far south as Colorado, Coconino County in Arizona, and Tulare County in California). It grows in a variety of habitats at a variety of elevations, from lowland sagebrush steppe to subalpine meadows.
Antennaria umbrinella is a perennial herb growing erect stems to a maximum height around 16 centimeters from a woody base with spreading stolons. The base is covered in woolly leaves each one to two centimeters long and lance-shaped to spoon-shaped. Each inflorescence holds several flower heads with fuzzy phyllaries which are whitish to brown in color.
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 umbrinella by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
