New Snow Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis)

New Snow Pearly Everlasting is a tough but beautiful native
wildflower with attractive wooly, silver-gray foliage and flat clusters of tiny
white, nectar-rich flowers. It is an excellent choice for meadow and prairie
plantings as well as xeric perennial beds with lean, low fertility soils and
dry conditions. Highly attractive to butterflies; Pearly Everlasting is the
host plant for American Lady Butterflies. With long stems and attractive flower
clusters, Ananphalis also makes a great dried cut flower. It makes a great
companion plant for other late summer bloomers like Salvia azurea (Prairie
Sage), various tall Asters (‘Raydon’s Favorite’, ‘Blue Bird’) as well as
ornamental grasses like Schizachyrium (Little Bluestem), Bouteloua ‘Blonde
Ambition’ (Blue Grama grass), and Sporobolus heterolipis (Prairie Dropseed).