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Two-color rabbit-tobacco

Pseudognaphalium biolettii

Also called Two Toned Everlasting, Twocolor Cudweed

Two-color rabbit-tobacco
Photo: Jengod, CC BY-SA 4.0

Two-color rabbit-tobacco is a native perennial daisy-family plant of coastal sage and scrub in southern California and Baja California, growing up to about a meter tall and blooming January to June. It needs sun, good drainage and dry conditions, as it is adapted to a Mediterranean-type climate.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; it tolerates drought once established.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gravelly soil; avoid heavy, wet clay.
Temperature
Tolerates mild winters and warm summers; frost-tender in cold climates, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
California to N. Mexico
Climate
subtropical

About

Pseudognaphalium biolettii, or two-color rabbit-tobacco, is an Asteraceae-family flowering plant found in western North America. An alternative common name is two-tone everlasting. This perennial species is a food plant for the larval/caterpillar stages of the American lady butterfly. This plant thrives in coastal sage and scrub habitats of southern California and Baja California. Two-color rabbit tobacco may have a slight fragrance of lemon. Plant size is up to a meter high. The blooming period is typically January to June.

Other Pseudognaphalium plants

Pseudognaphalium cheiranthifolium · Cotton Weed · Ladies' tobacco · Wright's cudweed · Pseudognaphalium dysodes · Pseudognaphalium gaudichaudianum · Wright's Cudweed · Rabbit-tobacco · Cottonbatting plant · Cudweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pseudognaphalium biolettii 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.

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