PlantFiles: Plantain-leaf Pussytoes, Woman's Tobacco
Antennaria plantaginifolia

It make a nice groundcover for the rock garden or as a understory plant in a native sun garden that has mostly perennials of two feet or more. It might is poisonous as rabbits and rodents won't eat it and it suffers very little damage from insects other than the larvae of a species of a butterfly (don't be horrified if you see lots of caterpillars covering the plants I think they are Red Admiral or Painted Lady Butterfly I don't know which one). The flowers appear in medium spring and look like tiny cat's feet. I accidently planted a tiny meadowrue species nearby and it blend in nicely. I heard something about it being similiar to Black Walnut into that it kill other plants using chemicals but I had never noticed anything happening.

Boiled in milk, was a folk remedy for diarrhea and dysentery. Leaves were poulticed on bruises, sprains, boils and swellings.

Herbaceous perennial native to eastern North America. Likes sandy to well drained soil. Transplants very easily. Given the proper conditions (open woods and fields with good drainage), this plant will spread well and form a nice dense mat. The flowers are little clusters that look like little pussy toes! Undersides of leaves are fuzzy to the touch.

This plant is great for rock gardens or as a groundcover. It only reaches a height of about 2". It prefers full sun and well-drained soil. Its leaves are somewhat hairy or wooly. There are many species of this plant which are very similar, so it is difficult to distinguish from one another. It is native to the U.S.