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Asteraceae family
Woolly Easterbonnets Antheropeas wallacei
Native
Early-season nectar — Flowers in a late-winter / early-spring window when few other plants in our catalog bloom — valuable early forage for pollinators (relative to our catalog's bloom coverage).
Woolly Easterbonnets is an annual wildflower native to the lower 48 states. It blooms Mar – May.
More about this plant
Eriophyllum wallacei is a North American flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names woolly daisy and woolly easterbonnets. It grows in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It may grow in clumps or on short erect stems in sand, rocks, and gravel. Wikipedia →
Growing & care
USDA PLANTS · TRY Conditions
Sources · Conditions
Cold hardiness (derived) — Hardiness
- Hardiness
- ≥ zone 6 derived from its U.S. range
Size & form
Sources · Size & form
USDA PLANTS — Lifespan
- Lifespan
- Annual
In the garden
Herb layer — Sits in the herb of a layered food forest or polyculture.Open guide →
derived roles The garden year bloom → fruit → fall colour
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Bloom
Bloom (the flower's colour)
Bloom · Mar – May — 62 obs · Herbarium specimens — Park et al. 2023 (CC BY 4.0)
Species characteristics from USDA PLANTS (public domain) + TRY (CC BY) — general guidance, not a
guarantee for your exact site. Deer "browsing" is documented palatability, not a deer-proof claim.
Related plants
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Alpine Leafybract Aster
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Anisescented Goldenrod
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Anticosti Island Aster
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●●●●● Same genus / family, ranked by ecological value — from the PlantKey catalog
Sources for this entry (9) Open & cited
[01] Scientific name & family — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[02] Growth habit & duration — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[03] Native status & distribution — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[04] Common name — USDA PLANTS (via GBIF)
[05] Invasive / introduced status — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503) — native status
[06] Photos — Wikimedia Commons — CC, credited per image
[07] Description — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
[08] Bloom period — Herbarium specimens — Park et al. 2023 (CC BY 4.0)
[09] Cold hardiness (derived) — Derived from U.S. range × USDA PHZM zones
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