Antennaria argentea

Silver pussytoes

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Silver pussytoes is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, California Ranges, Sierra Nevada, and North Coast Mountains in dry conifer forest at elevations of 600 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white to cream flowers in compact heads 10 to 75 millimeters long with distinctive involucres. Growing with erect stems 18 to 40 centimeters tall emerging from a branched caudex, it forms dense clusters. Its basal leaves are oblanceolate to elliptic, 20 to 50 millimeters long and 7 to 20 millimeters wide, covered in a distinctive gray tomentose (woolly) surface. The plant's cauline leaves are narrow and lanceolate, complementing its silvery-gray appearance in dry mountain habitats.

Habitat: dry conifer forest

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 600-2000 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, MP

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.