I've been trying to ID this plant for quite a while. I noticed a number of years ago that it was a host for the American Lady cats. And thought it was an artemisia...then lately realized I was wrong! So this year there were much more plants...some years I had only had one single plant, now there's quite a few. Two bloomed recently and that helped a lot, because I hadn't seen one bloom in years. Well, I think it's Gnaphalium obtusifolium, because the blooming plants look like this on the Missouri plants site:
http://www.missouriplants.com/...
The blooms on my blooming plant:
Well, who knew any Gnaphalium species even grew in this area? So the day after I figured this out, what do you suppose I saw on one of the smaller plants? Some cats, of course! In November???
