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Botanical Name: Antennaria
Common Name: Pussy Toes
Hardiness: Zone 4 - 7
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Time: Spring and summer
Flower Colours: White to Deep Pink
Foliage: Silvery Grey
Height: 6 - 8 inches
Spread: 10 - 12 inches
Soil Type: Average
Moisture: Dry to average
Care Level: Easy
Antennaria dioica Rubra

General Description:
A tough plant especially suited to hot sunny locations and poor, dry soil. It forms a low, creeping mat of tiny bright silvery-grey leaves. Short stems of fuzzy pink flowers appear in late spring. Perfect for the sunny rock garden, as a groudcover or for between paving stones. Also excellent growing in rock walls. Very drought tolerant. Evergreen to near evergreen ground cover in the daisy family, forms dense mats of leaf rosettes that root as they spread. The flower heads are of the 'everlasting' type with dry papery bracts. Tolerates moderate foot traffic

Care and Maintenance:
This plant tolerates drought, but will grow in dry to moist soil.
Suitable soil is well-drained/loamy,clay or sandy.
The pH preference is a neutral soil.

Uses & Features:
Borders
Rock Gardens
Containers
Deer Resistant
Edging
Native flower
Varieties Available:
dioica Rubra