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native plant database: Vick, Albert F. W. Anaphalis margaritacea
(L.) Benth. Western pearly everlasting, Pearly-everlasting USDA
Symbol: Anma USDA Native Status: Native to U.S. Individual,
erect, cottony stems grow 1-3 ft. tall and are often clumped
together creating a bushy appearance. Narrow leaves are gray-
green to woolly-white. Globular flowers are actually long-
enduring, white, dry bracts arranged around a yellow center.
Several evenly leafy woolly stems in a small patch are topped by
a crowded, roundish cluster of flower heads with pearly-white
bracts, sometimes with a dark spot at base of each outer bracts.
The dried stalks with their pearly-white heads are attractive in
floral arrangements. The pure white flower is commonly used in
dried flower arrangements. Good dried flowers; food plant for
Painted lady butterflies. In f