Plantain-leaf Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
White flowers from March into May, worked by cuckoo bees. American Lady caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 100 of Virginia’s 133 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 5 in to 6 in tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Mar to May
- Leaves
- Semi-evergreen
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flower
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the American Lady
- Caterpillars
- 3 kinds of caterpillars
- Birds
- 5 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Cuckoo bee (Nomada pygmaea)
Grows well with
Bird's-foot Violet
Wild Strawberry
Bluestem Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
Wild Geranium
Calico Aster
Narrowleaf Sundrops
Small's RagwortFacts from the Quercus record for Antennaria plantaginifolia.