Antennaria rosea, June 30, 2020
Common & scientific name
Rosy pussytoes, Antennaria rosea
Family
Sunflower, Asteraceae
Location
Weller campground, 9,500’
Fun, weird, helpful, or little known fact
Called “pussytoes” because of their tightly packed flower head’s resemblance to the underside of a cat’s paw, Rosy pussytoes is our loveliest species owing to its bright rosy heads. Each colony of pussytoes is a clone with all the plants connected to one another by underground rhizomes, and their evergreen leaf mats cover the ground throughout the four seasons.