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Diaperia prolifera
Also called Big Head Cudweed, Bighead Pygmycudweed, Bighead Rabbit Tobacco, Flathead Rabbit Tobacco, Rabbit Tobacco
Big Head Rabbit Tobacco is a small, woolly, silvery annual herb native to the central United States, growing up to about 15 cm tall. It thrives in dry, open ground and is rarely grown deliberately in gardens.
Diaperia prolifera, common name big-head rabbit-tobacco, is a plant species native to the central part of the United States from Montana to New Mexico to Alabama. It prefers dry, open areas.
Diaperia prolifera is an annual herb up to 15 cm (6 inches) tall, grayish green to silvery because of thick woolly pubescence. The stem branches above ground, with leaves up to 15 mm long. Flower heads are usually produced one at a time, but occasionally in groups of 2–3.
Silver Rabbit Tobacco · Many Stem Rabbit Tobacco · Rabbit Tobacco
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diaperia prolifera 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.
