Asteraceae FAMILY

Anaphalis margaritacea

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Anaphalis margaritacea is an erect, herbaceous, perennial plant producing a clump of stems up to 90cm long from a spreading, stoloniferous rootstock[ 352 Title KemperCentreForHomeGardeningPlantFinder Publication Author Website http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Year 0 ISBN Description Basic cultivation details, plant uses, habitat etc for several thousand species of plants, mainly from the temperate zone. ]. The plant is harvsted from the wild for local use as a medicine. It also supplies a dye, is used as an incense and perhaps also as a food. Widely cultivated as an ornamental, the plant has spread from cultivation and become naturalized in much of Europe[ 270 Title Flora of N. America Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/fna/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line version of the flora with an excellent description of the plant including a brief mention of plant uses. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeN. America. - Alaska to Newfoundland, south to northern Mexico and North Carolian; Asia- Russian Far East, China, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, Nepal

HabitatDry woods, often with aspen or mixed conifer-hardwood, borders and trails, dunes, fields, roadsides, other open, often disturbed sites; at elevations up to 3,200 metres[ 270 Title Flora of N. America Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/fna/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line version of the flora with an excellent description of the plant including a brief mention of plant uses. ]. Moist meadows, by rivers, on wall tops and in sandy and waste places[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ].