Antennaria neglecta -- (Pussy Toes)


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 Scientific Name:  Antennaria neglecta
 Common Name:  Pussy Toes
 Other Common Names:  Field Pussytoes
 Duration of Life:  Perennial
 Bloom Color:  White
 Soil Moisture:  Dry, Mesic
 Plant Origin:  Native
 Soil Type prefered:  Loam, Clay
 Drought Tolerance:  Low
 Flower Conspicuous:  No
 Soil Fertility Requirement:  Medium
 Moisture Use:  Low
 Shade Tolerance:  Intolerant
 Active Growth Period:  Spring, Summer
 Anaerobic Tolerance:  None
 Calcium Carbonate Tolerance:  Medium
 Bloom Period:  Late Spring
 Commercial Availability:  No Known Source
 Competitivness:  Aggressive
 Cold Stratification Required:  No
 Best established via:  Plant
 Fall Conspicuous:  No
 Frost Free Days, Minimum:  90
 Foliage Color:  Dark Green
 Fruit/Seed Abundance:  Medium
 Fruit/Seed Period Begin:  Spring
 Fruit/Seed Conspicuous:  No
 Fruit/Seed Period End:  Summer
 Fruit/Seed Color:  Brown
 Fruit/Seed Persistence:  No
 Fire Tolerance:  High
 Foliage Texture:  Fine
 Growth Form:  Stoloniferous
 Growth Habit:  Forb/herb
 Growth Rate:  Slow
 Height, Mature (feet):  1
 Leaf Retention:  No
 Low Growing Grass:  No
 Life Span:  Short
 pH (Maximum):  7.5
 pH (Minimum):  5.5
 Precipitation (Minimum):  11
 Resprout Ability:  No
 Root Depth, Min. (inches):  9
 Salt Tolerance:  None
 Shape and Orientation:  Prostrate
 Flowering Months:  May, June
 Small Grain:  No
 Seed per Pound:  6600000
 Seed Spread Rate:  Slow
 Seedling Vigor:  Low
 Temperature, Minimum (F):  -38
 Toxicity:  None
 Vegetative Spread Rate:  Slow
 Found in Old fields:  Yes
 Found in Virgin fields:  No
 Propagation:  Seed
 Palpable: (eatable)  Browse Animal (Low), Graze Animal (Low)
 Where Found in S.E. MN:

 Category:  Dicot
 Division:  Magnoliophyta
 Class:  Magnoliopsida
 Order:  Asterales
 Family:  Asteraceae
 Genus:  Antennaria

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