Pussytoes is grown for its basal rosette of soft velvety leaves. Small bees and flies pollinate the small white spring blooming flowers.

Bright red textured fruit capsules split open in the fall revealing 4 glossy orange-red seeds, eaten by birds.

Fragrant, white flowers bloom in small, flat-topped clusters atop unbranched stems and within the leaf axils, between June and September.

Summer blooming purple flowers are attractive to bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.

Purple florets clustered around a cone-like bud bloom throughout the summer, June-August.

Loose clusters of delicate, blue or purple, bell-shaped flowers bloom intermittently atop slender stems from summer through fall.

White flowers bloom in May-July, attracting pollinating bees, wasps and beetles to this small shrub.