WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
in fields and along roadsides and often along the edge 
of woodlands, from Nova Scotia to the Northwest 
Territory, and south to Virginia, Kentucky, and 
Missouri, from May to November. 
PEARLY, LARGE-FLOWERED OR LIFE EVER- 
LASTING. SILVER-LEAF. MOONSHINE. COT- 
TON-WEED. NONE+SO-PRETTY 
Andphalis margaritacea. Thistle Family. 
This is the prettiest of our Everlastings. It is much 
used for making memorial wreaths, and for decorating 
vases or catch-alls on the mantelpieces in country 
houses. The little flowers have been likened to the 
forms of miniature Roses or Water Lilies. Before they 
open, they really have a round, pearly look. They 
also have a slight odour. The erect, round, cottony 
stem grows from one to three feet high and is leafy up 
to the spreading, flowering top. The toothless leaves 
are very long and narrow with a noticeable midrib. 
They are narrowed to the clasping base, and circle the 
stalk alternatingly. They are grayish green above 
and woolly beneath. The little flower heads are formed 
of many dry, pearly white, overlapping scales enclosing 
a tuft of numerous fuzzy, yellow tubular florets, and are 
borne in small groups that are gathered in a terminal, 
slightly rounded or flat-topped cluster. When fully 
expanded and matured, the centres become brownish. 
The flowers are both staminate and pistillate, and grow 
on different plants. They have been used in domestic 
practice as a cough medicine, and also as an application 
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