Anaphalis Species, Pearly Everlasting, Western Pearly-Everlasting

In Upper East Tennessee, this plant is reffered to as 'rabit tobacco'. It is left on the stlk until the leaves have dried on it. The plan...Read Morets are then picked and the leaves are stripped from it. You can either chew or smoke the leaves, doing one will releive a sore throat. The flowers are discarded as waste. This plant contains no known nicotene or THC.

Warning: This plant is very pungent and bitter if chewed, try small amounts if you are going to chew it.

Nobody has yet said what attracted me to this plant. Pearly everlasting has the most delicious smell when you rub the flowers and leaves!...Read More Sort of a combination of cumin and lavender, and if that sounds weird it is because the scent is so undefinable, and momentary, but all the more wonderful for that.

Outstanding as a larvae plant for Painted Lady butterfly. My only problem was that it was devastated and eaten to the ground....it has y...Read Moreet to rejuvenate. Also I was unsuccessful in finding a secondary food plant for a couple of larvae I brought in.......

Development in our area has pretty much limited the meadows you can walk through to utility breaks through local parks, and this is one o...Read Moref the few wildflowers that can take this type of "management". So we treasure it all the more, especially with the way its woolly "silver" seems to complement the silvers of some of the Japanese "seven grasses" with which they celebrate autumn.

One Japanese woodcut that seems to capture the emotional essence of autumn's flowering grasses and seed pods can be found through images at http://www.google.com - key Yoshitoshi + flute into the search box and you should find some great scans that can make seasonal wallpaper on your 'pooter screen. Yoshitoshi's woodcut is called "The Flute Player"; it's a 3-panel triptych; and it depicts a flute player whose music is so magical that the barbarian about to attack is too enchanted to hurt the musician.