Mystery plant a sand lover, but it's not all that picky
By John Nelson
Curator, USC Herbarium
Posted 6/13/10
Such shocking pink in the middle of the hot, dry woods - you wouldn't expect to see it, yet that is where our psammophyte grows.
"Psammos" (you don't pronounce the "p") is the Greek word for sand, and "phyte" refers to a plant, so a psammophyte …
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