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Wild thyme is a creeping dwarf evergreen shrub, growing to 10 centimetres (4 in) tall. [4] It has woody stems up to 10 cm long and a taproot. It forms matlike plants that root from the nodes of the squarish, limp stems. The leaves are 3–8 mm long in opposite pairs, nearly stalkless, with linear elliptic round-tipped blades and untoothed ...
It is also considered an aggressive invasive weed of woodlands and lawns in some parts of North America, being considered a non-native plant in the United States, and invasive in some U.S. states. [6] It has invaded wild areas, sometimes choking out native wildflowers. G. hederacea thrives in moist shaded areas, but also tolerates sun very well ...
Zoysia japonica (commonly known as Korean lawngrass, [1] zoysia grass or Japanese lawngrass) is a species of creeping, mat-forming, short perennial grass that grows by both rhizomes and stolons. [2] [3] It is native to the coastal grasslands of southeast Asia and Indonesia. [4] The United States was first introduced to Z. japonica in 1895.
Those fires took advantage of invasive red brome grass and burned hundreds of thousands of acres of Mojave Desert and over a million iconic Joshua Trees. The increasing hot and dry conditions then ...
Thymus praecox is a species of thyme. A common name is mother of thyme, [2] but "creeping thyme" and "wild thyme" may be used where Thymus serpyllum, which also shares these names, is not found. It is native to central, southern, and western Europe.
Caraway thyme is a creeping, woody-based perennial, growing to 10 to 25 cm (4 to 10 in) high and spreading out across the ground to a width of 30 cm (12 in). The leaves are 4 to 10 mm (0.2 to 0.4 in) long, lanceolate, dark glossy green and hairy. The foliage has a strong aroma of caraway.
The leaves in wild creeping thyme vary from slightly glabrous (smooth) to sparsely covered in white hairs, or thickly covered on both surfaces, with the margins ciliate (hairy), or just ciliate at the base. Both growth low to the ground and leaf hairiness could be an adaptation to a cold or snowy climate, for example a mountainous habitat.
Euphorbia serpyllifolia (Euphorbia serpillifolia [note 1]) is a species of euphorb known by the common names thymeleaf sandmat or thyme-leafed spurge.It is native to a large part of North America from Canada to Mexico, where it is a common member of the flora in many types of habitat.