Field Pussytoes, Early Everlastings, Antennaria neglecta Greene, Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Field Pussytoes	Antennaria neglecta Greene	Aster (Composite)	Upland	Spring
Other names and notes	Pussytoes are also know as "Early Everlastings". They have a leafy base and can form dense mats. The white flowers form in a small cluster at the top of an upright stem. Flower stalks are up to 8" high. With Field Pussytoes the base shoots are prostrate with very small leaves that overlap each other at the tip of the shoot. The upper leaf surface is woolly and dull color.




	Above and Left: The flower heads of early May from which the common name derives. Below: The flower heads form seeds rapidly as these from late May testify.

Notes: This plant is native to almost all counties in Minnesota with only 16 widely scattered exceptions. This species was not on Martha Crone's 1951 inventory of plants in the Garden. It has been planted several times thereafter. This particular group on the central hill of the Upland Garden is relatively new to the Garden as these plants were installed in 2006 by Curator Susan Wilkins.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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