Pussytoes Antennaria

All five rated members of Antennaria fall on the same side, with no assessed exception.

The agreement includes rosy pussytoes, pussytoes identified simply as Antennaria, and small-leaf pussytoes, each rated fire resistant on a handful of assessments. These are all groundcovers in the aster family, so the finding applies across the genus’s assessed members without relying on a mix of shrubs, trees, or other forms.

Pussytoes are native in Subarctic America and parts of the north-central, northwestern, and southwestern United States. Hardiness spans USDA zones 3a to 4a among the two members with zone information. Separate assessments give rosy pussytoes a range of zones 3 through 8 and small-leaf pussytoes a range of zones 4 through 7, but those figures describe the named members rather than every Antennaria.

The assessments do not supply a plant trait or fire-test result that explains the ratings, so the strongest conclusion is the consistent verdict itself. For a homeowner choosing a groundcover, assessed pussytoes offer an unusually clear answer: every member evaluated so far has been placed in the fire-resistant category.