Coastal BC Plants: Pearly Everlasting
Pearly Everlasting
Just about everywhere you go along roads in the Powell River backcountry you'll find Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritaea). It’s nice to have a flower that’s almost a namesake: Margy, Margaret, margaritaea. You can find Pearly Everlasting on rocky slopes, in open forest areas, clearings, meadows, fields; pretty much any sunny spot from low elevations to sub-alpine heights.
Like many other plants in the Aster family, it’s a perennial herb. Many straight stems rise from an underground rhizome (versus a root), allowing it to survive through the winter to regrow each spring.
The narrow lance-shaped leaves are greyish-green on top and white underneath. The round white flowers, looking much like handfuls of pearls, grow in clusters at the top of each stalk. When picked and dried, they last a long time in flower arrangements, pretty much “everlasting.” -- Margy
References: Plants of Coastal British Columbia by Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon (Lone Pine Publishing, 1994) and Wildflowers of the Canadian Rockies by George Scotter and Halle Flygare (Hurtig Publishers, 1986), and E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia (online).
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Pearly Everlasting is very lovely!
ReplyDeleteeverlasting..... a wonderful word appropiate for many things, we can be gratefull for.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful to you for participating in our weekly meme and i hope to may greet you next time again!
have an nice abc-day/ - week
♫ M e l ☺ d y ♫ <abc-w-team)
Beautiful! They remind me on the yellow mimosa:)
ReplyDeleteThanks for identifying these pretty flowers. I have always wondered what they were.
ReplyDeleteMust be kind of like Baby's Breath in floral arrangements. - Margy
DeleteThat's a pretty flower!
ReplyDeleteI love seeing pearly everlasting in the woods when I'm hiking. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog! :)
ReplyDeleteI beg all the yr 6 students would like to dunk you. What a good sport you were.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed being a principal. - Margy
Deleteso delicate
ReplyDeleteROG, ABCW
Lovely flower and photos and post ~
ReplyDeleteWishing you a Happy Weekend,
artmusedog and carol
Such PRETTY PLANTS and so many of them
ReplyDeletealong the way,
MY dear MAMA was called MARGARET or MARGO
to her friends.
Enjoyable and interesting read MARGY, thanks for sharing
your part of the world with us,
Incidentally there was a programme on TV about people who dwell in float cabins, most interesting too!
Best wishes from
Di,
ABCW team.
I was Margo only for one year when my sixth grade teacher picked that name to call me. I saw the first two episodes of Ice Lake Rebels but by the time I got back from the cabin they were already off the air and on-demand. I'm sure they will come back. Our lake isn't quite so rebellious, but we do have some interesting characters here as well. - Margy
DeleteThose are pretty. I wonder if they'd grow in California. I could grow them for next year's dry floral arrangement that I enter in the county fair. I can't get over how expensive dry flowers are.
ReplyDeleteThe View from the Top of the Ladder
They are so delicate!
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen this kind of flower around here. So lovely and a perfect name for it.
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