Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, commonly known as rabbit tobacco, sweet everlasting, or fragrant cudweed, is a biennial or short-lived perennial herb in the family Asteraceae native to eastern and central North America. The plant produces a basal rosette in its first year and an erect, leafy flowering stem 30 to 90 centimetres tall in its second year. Stems and leaves are clothed in dense white woolly tomentum, giving the whole plant a silvery appearance. Leaves are alternate, sessile, linear-lanceolate, 3 to 10 centimetres long, green above and white-felted beneath, with entire margins. The inflorescence is a terminal corymbiform cluster of small cylindrical heads, each 4 to 6 millimetres long; the involucral bracts are pearly white, papery, and persistent, surrounding a small central cluster of yellowish disc florets — ray florets are absent. The plant emits a sweet maple-tobacco aroma when dried. It grows in old fields, dry open woods, roadsides, and disturbed sandy soils.