Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Purple ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Woolly Stemodia, Wooly Stemodia, Gray Woolly Twintip, Silverleaf Stemodia, Creeping Silver Cenizo (Stemodia tomentosa), Scrophulariaceae Family, endemic Texas native, perennial, blooms March through October or so.

Woolly stemoda is a low spreading evergreen groundcover that grows to be about 4 - 6”inches in height high and spreads to 2 feet - 4’ feet wide. The up to 3/4 of an inch by 1/2 of an inch wide leaves are covered in small fine white hairs which give them a pale gray or silver appearance. The tiny 1/2 inch wide and 3/8 inch long tubular blooms are violet to bluish purple. It tolerates heat, drought and salt and is deer resistant. It prefers full sun and does well in poor soils. It is a great groundcover, border, rock garden, xeriscape or container plant. It may be used for erosion control. It serves as catepillar plant food for the mangrove buckeye butterfly.

Map of Nntive range:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/vpt_map_name?reg=2,6,10&n...Stemodia%20tomentosa%20(Mill.

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/128614/index.html

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