| Scientific Name: | Antennaria dioica |
| Common Name: | pussy toes |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Europe, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | < 0.1m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Perennial border, Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Alkaline |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Basal, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Tomentose, Linear, Spatulate, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Pink, Apr-May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Basal leaves mostly spatulate, 2-3cm long x 4-8mm wide, apex mucronate, gray pubescence; stem leaves linear, 7-13mm long x 3-6mm wide, apex acute; ; female plant heads about 12mm wide and darker pink then male plant flower heads which are about 6mm wide and on shorter peduncles, 3-7 heads with their numerous pink to white bracts form a compact corymb-like inflorescence. | |