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This plant is generally found in sandy, well-drained soil in areas with low precipitation, it can become a striking carpet-like groundcover in undisturbed areas after winter rains. Pink sand verbena tolerates seaside conditions and is found on the west coast of North America from British Columbia, Canada to Baja California , Mexico .
Houttuynia cordata, also known as fish mint, fish leaf, rainbow plant, chameleon plant, heart leaf, fish wort, or Chinese lizard tail, is one of two species in the genus Houttuynia (the other being H. emeiensis). It is a flowering plant native to Southeast Asia. [1] It grows in moist, shady locations. [2] It was named after Martinus Houttuyn.
The plant forms a compact, prostrate or low-mounding structure, typically no more than a few inches in height, and its sprawling nature helps add stability in its native sandy environment. The leaves of Abronia nana are simple, ovate to lanceolate , and are often covered in fine, glandular hairs, giving them a somewhat sticky texture. [ 3 ]
Abronia ammophila, the Yellowstone sand verbena, is a plant unique to Yellowstone National Park's lakeshores and is endemic to the park. Only a few species are widespread, and many are quite rare. They make very attractive garden plants for hot, dry sandy sites.
Abronia maritima is a species of sand verbena known by the common name red sand verbena. This is a beach-adapted perennial plant native to the coastlines of southern California, including the Channel Islands, and northern Baja California. It grows along stable sand dunes near, but not in, the ocean surf.
This rare plant generates many visitor questions each summer. Visitors assume the large, lush seedpod is a blossom, but the flowers are actually the tiny white blossoms at the end of succulent, pink tubes. This verbena looks like it belongs more in a tropical rainforest than a desert - just another hidden surprise at Great Sand Dunes!
Verbena oblaetia Retz. Verbena rubra Salisb. Verbena canadensis (syn. Glandularia canadensis ), commonly known as rose mock vervain , [ 2 ] rose verbena , [ 3 ] clump verbena [ 4 ] or rose vervain [ 5 ] is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the verbena family ( Verbenaceae ) with showy pink to purple flowers..
Abronia fragrans, sweet sand-verbena, is an herbaceous perennial with an upright or sprawling growth habit, reaching 8–40 inches (about 20–102 cm). [3] It grows from a taproot with sticky, hairy stems growing from 7.1 inches to 3.3 feet (18–100 cm) long.