Antennaria neglecta

If you need a small-scale groundcover for a sunny garden niche that's beset by drought and rabbits, than field pussytoes is just the ticket. It's an adorably thing, forming ground-hugging mats of fuzzy silver-gray leaves that are studded in late spring with even fuzzier "pussytoe" flower/seed heads on 6- to 12-inch stems.  It also works well in flowering lawns.

Sun; average to dry soil (drought tolerant); 2"x18"; late spring; RI native; Zone 3

Propagated from seed; deep 3.5-inch pots

Photo: wackybadger