| Scientific Name: | Anaphalis margaritacea |
| Common Name: | pearly everlasting |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Dried flower or fruit, Green roof technology, Herb, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Sessile, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Yellow, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Black, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, sessile, narrowly lanceolate, most 3-4(-15)cm long x 5-9(-20)mm wide, silver-gray and woolly undersides; flower heads ~1cm wide, globular with whorls of white bracts, many yellow disk florets in centre, arranged in corymbs, Jul-Aug. | |