noun
- An American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts.
- synonyms: pearly everlasting, Anaphalis margaritacea
- Any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers. .
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