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Antennaria rosea, June 20, 2022

A. rosea, roadside 11,700’, July 1, 2022

Common & scientific name
Rosy pussytoes, Antennaria rosea

Family
Sunflower, Asteraceae

Location
Grottos, 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

A. rosea, roadside, 11,400’, August 5, 2022