Sweet-scented Life Everlasting. Old Field Balsam. Gnaphalium Obtusifolium or Blunt-leaved Everlasting. Corollas yellow, flowering July to August.
Leaves have a pleasant aromatic smell and an aromatic, slightly bitter, astringent, agreeable taste.
The Antennaria Margaritacea or Gnaphalium Margaritacea , or Pearl-flowered Life Everlasting, has the same properties as White Balsam. Can be used internally and as a local application, likewise used as fomentations to bruises, indolent tumours. An infusion given in diseases of the bowels - haemorrhages etc. A tincture is made from whole plant.