Antennaria
noun
An·ten·nar·ia
ˌan‧ˌteˈna(a)rēə
: a genus of woolly or hoary herbs (family Compositae) that are natives mostly of temperate regions and have small whitish discoid flower heads and a pappus formed of club-shaped bristles see cat's-foot
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Medieval Latin antenna + New Latin -aria; from the resemblance of the pappus of the staminate flowers to the antennae of certain insects