Not all wildflowers display large, showy blooms. The charm of Pussytoes lies in its blue-green foliage, adding fuzzy white puffs atop flower stalks in spring.
A host plant for American Lady butterflies, you can find their striped caterpillars munching on this prairie groundcover or sheltering from the sun in the low shade of its leaves.
American Lady (Vanessa virginiensis) on Field Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta)
The many stages of life found on one little plant inspires this mini-collection. To see them all you may need to stand still and look closely into a tangled tapestry of foliage.
