Rabbit's tobacco/sweet everlasting/Gnaphalium obtusifolium is a different plant from pearly everlasting/Anaphalis margaritacea. Pearly everlasting is native to Canada and the northern U.S. I ordered some plants once, and they didn't come back for me, I assume because the climate here is too hot in summer and/or not cold enough in winter. I know that rabbit's tobacco or sweet everlasting is native to the Deep South, since it grows wild here, and my wildflower books says it's native all over the country. Obviously, it can take the heat of the south. To my eye, pearly everlasting and sweet everlasting/rabbit's tobacco look just the same - I don't know if I could tell them apart if I saw them side by side. I think the flowers of pearly everlasting may be a little bigger, but none of mine have ever been able to flower, because the AL caterpillars eat them before that happens. They're both used by American ladies as a host plant.

By the way, they've changed the scientific name of rabbit's tobacco/sweet everlasting to Pseudo-something or other, can't remember just what.

Sherry

Thanks Sherry! Will rabbits tobacco grow in sun or shade?