Hudsonia Tomentosa (Noun)
Meaning
Small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The beaches along the Atlantic coast were lined with dense thickets of hudsonia tomentosa that stabilized the sandy soil and protected the coastline from erosion.
- Botanists often mistakenly identify hudsonia tomentosa as a woody shrub due to its stiff stems and overlapping scale-like leaves, but it is in fact a herbaceous perennial plant.
- Hudsonia tomentosa flowers in late spring, producing clusters of tiny, pink-tinged buds that later produce long-lived capsules full of black, seeds which helped feed sand-dwelling species through autumn and into early spring.
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- These adaptable hardy heaths, including various different kinds of Hudsonia tomentosa, all became frequent in an expansive thick growth along any beach coastline as far as waves touch eastern seaboard.