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pearly everlasting

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pearly everlasting
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A rhizomatous plant (Anaphalis margaritacea) having woolly, gray-green foliage and long-lasting, whitish flower heads.
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Noun1.pearly everlasting - an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bractspearly everlasting - an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
Anaphalis margaritacea, cottonweed
everlasting, everlasting flower - any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
Anaphalis, genus Anaphalis - a genus of herbs of north temperate regions having hoary leaves: pearly everlasting
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Many of the plants that grow well in sunny borders have grey, hairy leaves,like the soft, felty Lambs Ears,Stachys lanata and Pearly Everlasting Anaphalis.
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I found pearly everlasting, painted trillium, and evening primrose.
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Danish Scurvy Grass and Reflexed Saltmarsh-grass have begun to migrate inland and other once alien plants, such as Pearly Everlasting and New Zealand Pigmyweed, have become more common across Wales.
North Wales plant life is blooming by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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