Rabbit-tobacco
Pseudognaphalium obtusifoliumnative · Hill Country
Rabbit-tobacco is an annual wildflower native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1–2 ft tall and 1 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and very low water. Blooms white and yellow in summer and fall. Good for bees, birds, butterflies and nectar insects.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Annual wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Very low
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spread
- 1 ft
- Bloom
- Summer, Fall · white, yellow
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on dry, loam, sand, well drained
- Wildlife
- Supports bees, birds, browsing mammals, butterflies and nectar insects
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low TerracesSan Antonio Prairie
705 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.