This section is from the book "Who's Who Among The Wild Flowers", by W. I. Beecroft. Also available from Amazon: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
White Plantain, and Ladies Tobacco. Antennaria plantaginifolia.
Composite Family. Apr. - June.
Found in dry fields and on hillsides. Common in U. S., Labrador to Gulf of Mexico, west to Nebraska.
Whitish, in small, tight clusters terminating a white-woolly stem, 6 - 18 inches high.
Lower leaves broad near the tip, 3-ribbed, stalks nearly as long as the leaves; upper leaves narrow, downy.

Early Everlasting.
 
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